School of Film/Video

On Thursday, April 15, award winning-filmmaker, animator, and educator Gary Schwartz (Film/Video MFA 81) presents at the CalArts Animation: The Early Years virtual lecture series, which is open to CalArts students, faculty, staff, and alumni. A 2017 Essay’d profile characterizes Schwartz as...

When Tim Wolff (Film/Video 86) was studying at CalArts in the mid-1980s, his intention was to make edgy narrative dramatic movies that would have a strong impact. Nearly 40 years later, Wolff has never directed a work of fiction, but the films he has made have sent him around the world with...

Programmed by Jennie Park (Art, Creative Writing MFA 22) and Fabian Vasquez Euresti (Film/Video MFA 10), the Feeler Gauge Festival opened virtually earlier this month, featuring 32 films by CalArts BFA, MFA, and alumni filmmakers from across the Institute.  The overarching concept of the...

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced its newest class of Guggenheim Fellows, with several CalArtians among this year’s recipients: Karen Lofgren, Melissa Thorne, School of Art faculty Cauleen Smith and Michael Jang.

On Thursday, April 8, the CalArts Animation: The Early Years virtual lecture series welcomes Peter Chung (Film/Video 81) to discuss his renowned career as an animator and director. The series is open to CalArts students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Chung is arguably best known as the creator...

Los Angeles performing arts destination The Music Center highlights director Tempe Hale’s (Film/Video MFA 14) experimental film-noir styled short “Night Hike” as part of its “For the Love of LA” program. Over the course of 13 weeks, the Music Center’s “For the Love of LA” series features...

CalArtian and executive producer of HBO Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons Pete Browngardt (Film/Video 10) has signed an exclusive multiyear cross-studio deal with Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) and Cartoon Network Studios (CNS), which are both subsidiaries of WarnerMedia. This inaugural deal...