Al Jarnow Movies

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

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

A story about cooperation.

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

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

Experimental computer imagery

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

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

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

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

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

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

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

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

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

An animated orange

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

A collection of 45 shorts from artist and filmmaker Al Jarnow.

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

The letter Z in various typefaces.