Content from School of Visual Arts

William Carmody is a successful, high profile writer living in LA. When a signing for his latest book brings him back home to Brooklyn for the first time in many years, he is forced to confront the life he left behind, and the people he would sooner forget. An adaptation of the Pete Hamill short story "The Book Signing."

About a boy and his teacher, Mr. Horzemen.

"The Eyeball Chase" is Jeremie Duval's SVA Animation Thesis from 2007.

The senior thesis film of Elyssa DiGiovanni

A man discovers a wire coming from his back and follows said wire to an outlet where it's plugged into.

Rebecca Sugar's thesis film from New York’s School of Visual Arts.

An accidental encounter with an uninvited guest disrupts Alice's life. As her husband Tom's hidden secret gradually surfaces, Alice finds herself one of the bio-mechanical substitutes of his deceased wife.

On the eve of accepting a lucrative Wall Street job, a young musician wrestles with leaving his jazz band behind forever.

It's scorching hot and a breathless frog is delighted at finding a pond where to cool down. Its joy is short-lived as the pond happens to be a family pool and the family happens to be super-scared of frogs.

A stop-motion animated short about a sleep deprived woman kept awake by her husband's snoring. As his snoring becomes worse, she finds herself literally sucked into his nose and must contend with monsters formed from his mucus.

A Michael Ruocco Cartoon

Caricature versions of George W. Bush and Colin Powell, each resembling nothing so much as a bobble head doll on a mission, rock out in a very funny send-up that manages to poke fun at the political powers that be, rock musicians of a certain ilk, and the music video genre itself.

Two toys fall in love in a clock.

“The Moon Is Essentially Gray” is a 3-minute CG animated short about a young child, her makeshift rocket, and her fantastic flight to the moon. The film explores the role escapism plays in the lives of children who suffer some form of neglect or abandonment by their caregivers. It is ultimately about the struggle to gain (or regain) personal power, joy, and freedom.

Two siblings attempt to get along in a fictional black and white room.

A film by Brad Rose.

It's time for finals again but Lita would rather do anything than her project. Leaving it for later won't be a bad idea, right?

This story is a sarcasm to today’ society. This is a made up world, I use Tag to represent for the stereotypes for different people. All of the people in society are labeled with different tags since they came to this world. I showed different stereotypes from different aspects, which is gender, body shame, social classes, only use score to define a student, and job stereotypes. People were tagged by others while they tag other people. They were defined by these tags and never reveal their true self. In the end, they decided to give up all the tags and became their true selves.

Desperate for fast cash, Briggs Sheridan finds work in the underground world of human trafficking. A routine child abduction goes awry when his final victim cries out for his guardian "Popsy." Mr. Sheridan learns the hard way that sometimes...debt is better.

Sibbie the dinosaur wants to get lunch, but her boss has some tasks for her to do first...