Al Jarnow Movies

An educational animated cartoon produced by the American Lung Association, set to music, about a mythical land which is invaded by an eight-armed,...

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...

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...

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...

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

A train struggles to stay on track.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

Experimental computer imagery

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

A story about cooperation.

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."

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

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

A companion piece to Cosmic Letter, also produced for 3-2-1 Contact. Jarnow begins at his address in Brooklyn and zooms outward to the farthest...

An animated orange

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

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...

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

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.