Al Jarnow Movies
- 1975
Four Quadrant Exercise
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Intended to be an "animation machine," Four Quadrant Exercise finds Jarnow adapting a perspective system, enabling him to render complex motions...
- 1979
Cube
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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...
- 1980
Audition
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A young woman grapples with the decision of following her dream of an acting career or marrying and having babies with the man she loves.
- 1977
Shorelines
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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...
- 1973
Tondo
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Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating...
- 1977
Digging to China
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Slated for inclusions on the Boston based Infinity Factory educational program alongside Map Projections, Digging to China explores a familiar...
- 1991
The Letter X
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The letter X in various typefaces.
- 1980
Train
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A train struggles to stay on track.
- 1980
Pegboard
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Shapes come to life on a pegboard.
- 1977
Map Projections
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In what would become a familiar theme throughout his carrer, Jarnow explores the earth from above, invoking Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion and the...
- 1978
Cubits
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Jarnow adapts an architectural grid catalogue of cubic rotations in order to explore a direct relationship between animation procedure and logical...
- 1978
Facial Recognition
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A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.
- 1995
Paper Origami
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Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.
- 1984
Shell Life
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Shells create intricate patterns in this short stop-motion animation.
- 1979
Cosmic Clock
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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...
- 1977
Perspectives
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Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by...
- 1981
Incidence of the Northern Moon
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A seashell belonging to a northern moon snail twists and turns 360 degrees in multiple wooden homemade contraptions and through contact sheets at a...
- 1997
Floor Tiles
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- 1985
Rocks
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A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.
- 1979
Jesse: The First Year
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For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.