Al Jarnow Movies

The letter X in various typefaces.

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....

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...

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.

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.

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

Experimental computer imagery

An animated orange

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

Documentary about the experimental animator.

Mixed animation set to music.

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

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

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

A parade of animated cats.