Al Jarnow Movies

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...

Documentary about the experimental animator.

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 train struggles to stay on track.

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

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

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

An animated orange

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

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

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...

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

Kids rapping about the number 17.

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

A parade of animated cats.

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....

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

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

For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.