Al Jarnow Movies

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

An animated orange

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...

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

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

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 filmed exercise that follows in the path of Rotating Cubic Grid and Cubits, the predictably titled Cube features cubes of varying shapes and size...

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

For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

Documentary about the experimental animator.

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

Kids rapping about the number 7.

Kids rapping about the number 11.

The letter M in various typefaces.

Mixed animation set to music.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

The letter Z in various typefaces.

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

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.