Al Jarnow Movies

  • 1975
    Four Quadrant Exercise

    Four Quadrant Exercise

    Four Quadrant Exercise

    01975HD

    Intended to be an "animation machine," Four Quadrant Exercise finds Jarnow adapting a perspective system, enabling him to render complex motions...

    Four Quadrant Exercise
  • 1979
    Cube

    Cube

    Cube

    01979HD

    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...

    Cube
  • 1973
    Tondo

    Tondo

    Tondo

    51973HD

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

    Tondo
  • 1976
    Autosong

    Autosong

    Autosong

    01976HD

    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...

    Autosong
  • 1984
    Shell Life

    Shell Life

    Shell Life

    01984HD

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

    Shell Life
  • 1989
    Ocean

    Ocean

    Ocean

    01989HD

    Ocean
  • 1977
    Digging to China

    Digging to China

    Digging to China

    01977HD

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

    Digging to China
  • 1977
    Shorelines

    Shorelines

    Shorelines

    01977HD

    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...

    Shorelines
  • 1997
    Floor Tiles

    Floor Tiles

    Floor Tiles

    01997HD

    Floor Tiles
  • 1985
    Rocks

    Rocks

    Rocks

    01985HD

    A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

    Rocks
  • 1980
    Bench

    Bench

    Bench

    01980HD

    A story about cooperation.

    Bench
  • 1978
    Cubits

    Cubits

    Cubits

    01978HD

    Jarnow adapts an architectural grid catalogue of cubic rotations in order to explore a direct relationship between animation procedure and logical...

    Cubits
  • 1983
    Moving Day

    Moving Day

    Moving Day

    01983HD

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

    Moving Day
  • 1977
    Map Projections

    Map Projections

    Map Projections

    01977HD

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

    Map Projections
  • 1979
    Cosmic Clock

    Cosmic Clock

    Cosmic Clock

    71979HD

    A mind-twisting time-lapse beginning on a hill just outside town, doing for the concept of time what Charles and Ray Eames's 1968 film The Powers of...

    Cosmic Clock
  • 1975
    Rotating Cubic Grid

    Rotating Cubic Grid

    Rotating Cubic Grid

    01975HD

    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....

    Rotating Cubic Grid
  • 1979
    Cosmic Letter

    Cosmic Letter

    Cosmic Letter

    01979HD

    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...

    Cosmic Letter
  • 1980
    Pegboard

    Pegboard

    Pegboard

    01980HD

    Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

    Pegboard
  • 1979
    Skeletons

    Skeletons

    Skeletons

    01979HD

    A short film made of cel drawings, showing us how various mammals, plants and objects all share similar skeletal structures. Produced for Sesame...

    Skeletons
  • 1991
    The Letter X

    The Letter X

    The Letter X

    01991HD

    The letter X in various typefaces.

    The Letter X