Al Jarnow Movies

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....

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

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

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

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

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...

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

A parade of animated cats.

Kids rapping about the number 17.

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

Experimental computer imagery

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...

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

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

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