Al Jarnow Movies

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

Kids rapping about the number 11.

A parade of animated cats.

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

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

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

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....

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

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

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

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

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...

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

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

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

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

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

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.