Al Jarnow Movies

  • 1978
    Facial Recognition

    Facial Recognition

    Facial Recognition

    01978HD

    A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

    Facial Recognition
  • 1977
    Shorelines

    Shorelines

    Shorelines

    01977HD

    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...

    Shorelines
  • 1977
    Perspectives

    Perspectives

    Perspectives

    01977HD

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

    Perspectives
  • 1977
    Digging to China

    Digging to China

    Digging to China

    01977HD

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

    Digging to China
  • 1976
    Autosong

    Autosong

    Autosong

    01976HD

    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...

    Autosong
  • 1975
    Rotating Cubic Grid

    Rotating Cubic Grid

    Rotating Cubic Grid

    01975HD

    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....

    Rotating Cubic Grid
  • 1975
    Four Quadrant Exercise

    Four Quadrant Exercise

    Four Quadrant Exercise

    01975HD

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

    Four Quadrant Exercise
  • 1968
    Scratching and Painting on Film

    Scratching and Painting on Film

    Scratching and Painting on Film

    01968HD

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

    Scratching and Painting on Film
  • 1968
    The Owl & the Pussycat

    The Owl & the Pussycat

    The Owl & the Pussycat

    01968HD

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

    The Owl & the Pussycat
  • 1981
    Incidence of the Northern Moon

    Incidence of the Northern Moon

    Incidence of the Northern Moon

    01981HD

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

    Incidence of the Northern Moon
  • 1984
    Celestial Navigation

    Celestial Navigation

    Celestial Navigation

    01984HD

    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...

    Celestial Navigation