Al Jarnow Movies

Kids rapping about the number 7.

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...

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...

Kids rapping about the number 17.

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

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....

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

Experimental computer imagery

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 rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

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

Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation.

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

A story about cooperation.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

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

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

Shells create intricate patterns in this short stop-motion animation.

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