Movies

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...

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

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

Experimental computer imagery

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

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 rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

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

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

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

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 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 story about cooperation.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

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

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

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

A train struggles to stay on track.