Al Jarnow Filmes

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...

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

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

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...

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.

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

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...

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

A story about cooperation.

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

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

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

A train struggles to stay on track.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

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

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

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...

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

Experimental computer imagery