Al Jarnow

Documentary about the experimental animator.

Beginning with his work for a certain public television show that featured a big yellow bird, Al Jarnow captured life's scientific minutia and boiled...

Mixed animation set to music.

A seashell belonging to a northern moon snail twists and turns 360 degrees in multiple wooden homemade contraptions and through contact sheets at a...

The letter X in various typefaces.

Kids rapping about the number 7.

Kids rapping about the number 11.

Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.

Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."

A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform...

Intended to be an "animation machine," Four Quadrant Exercise finds Jarnow adapting a perspective system, enabling him to render complex motions...

The primary motif in this silent picture is a grid that controls the shapes and motions of forms contained within the framework of a rotating cube....

Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating...

When Jill Jarnow won a blue Volkswagon in a design contest, and named the car Wart after the young king Arthur in T.H.White's The Sword and the Stone...

After a day of gathering hundreds of seashells and rocks from the beach, Jarnow uses the found objects to construct a stop motion commentary on how...

In what would become a familiar theme throughout his carrer, Jarnow explores the earth from above, invoking Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion and the...

Slated for inclusions on the Boston based Infinity Factory educational program alongside Map Projections, Digging to China explores a familiar...

Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by...

A companion piece to Cosmic Letter, also produced for 3-2-1 Contact. Jarnow begins at his address in Brooklyn and zooms outward to the farthest...

A filmed exercise that follows in the path of Rotating Cubic Grid and Cubits, the predictably titled Cube features cubes of varying shapes and size...

For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

Jarnow adapts an architectural grid catalogue of cubic rotations in order to explore a direct relationship between animation procedure and logical...

A mind-twisting time-lapse beginning on a hill just outside town, doing for the concept of time what Charles and Ray Eames's 1968 film The Powers of...

A short film made of cel drawings, showing us how various mammals, plants and objects all share similar skeletal structures. Produced for Sesame...

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive...

A young woman grapples with the decision of following her dream of an acting career or marrying and having babies with the man she loves.

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

An animated orange

A train struggles to stay on track.

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

A story about cooperation.

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

Daylight moves through a room. Or is it the room that moves?

Experimental computer imagery

A parade of animated cats.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations...

Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation.

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

Shells create intricate patterns in this short stop-motion animation.

Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.

Kids rapping about the number 17.

The letter M in various typefaces.

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

The letter Z in various typefaces.