Al Jarnow Movies

The letter X in various typefaces.

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 rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

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

Kids rapping about the number 17.

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...

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...

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

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

Documentary about the experimental animator.

A seashell belonging to a northern moon snail twists and turns 360 degrees in multiple wooden homemade contraptions and through contact sheets at a...

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...

An animated orange

The letter Z in various typefaces.

Experimental computer imagery

Mixed animation set to music.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

A story about cooperation.

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