Al Jarnow Movies

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

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...

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

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

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

Mixed animation set to music.

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.

A story about cooperation.

The letter Z in various typefaces.

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

The letter X in various typefaces.

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....

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...

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

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

The letter M in various typefaces.

Experimental computer imagery

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