Al Jarnow Movies

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

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.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

The letter X in various typefaces.

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

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

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...

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

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

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...

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

Experimental computer imagery

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

Kids rapping about the number 11.

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

A parade of animated cats.

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...