Al Jarnow Movies

Kids rapping about the number 17.

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

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.

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

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

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...

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

A story about cooperation.

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...

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

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.

The letter M in various typefaces.

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 rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

A parade of animated cats.

An animated orange

Mixed animation set to music.