Al Jarnow Movies

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

The letter M in various typefaces.

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 animated orange

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...

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

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

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....

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

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

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

Kids rapping about the number 17.

Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.

A story about cooperation.

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

Experimental computer imagery

A parade of animated cats.

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...

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...