Al Jarnow Movies

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

A story about cooperation.

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

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

A train struggles to stay on track.

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

A parade of animated cats.

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...

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

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....

The letter X in various typefaces.

The letter M in various typefaces.

Kids rapping about the number 17.

An animated orange

Kids rapping about the number 7.

Kids rapping about the number 11.

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