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...
- 1985
Rocks
Rocks01985HD
A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.
- 1983
Moving Day
Moving Day01983HD
Daylight moves through a room. Or is it the room that moves?
- 1979
Cube
Cube01979HD
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...
- 1977
Digging to China
Digging to China01977HD
Slated for inclusions on the Boston based Infinity Factory educational program alongside Map Projections, Digging to China explores a familiar...
- 1977
Map Projections
Map Projections01977HD
In what would become a familiar theme throughout his carrer, Jarnow explores the earth from above, invoking Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion and the...
- 1984
Shell Life
Shell Life01984HD
Shells create intricate patterns in this short stop-motion animation.
- 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...
- 1991
The Letter X
The Letter X01991HD
The letter X in various typefaces.
- 1977
Perspectives
Perspectives01977HD
Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by...
- 1978
Cubits
Cubits01978HD
Jarnow adapts an architectural grid catalogue of cubic rotations in order to explore a direct relationship between animation procedure and logical...
- 1970
Yak
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Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."
- 1980
Pegboard
Pegboard01980HD
Shapes come to life on a pegboard.
- 1990
Box City
Box City01990HD
Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.
- 1997
Floor Tiles
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- 1991
The Letter Z
The Letter Z01991HD
The letter Z in various typefaces.
- 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...
- 1982
Orange
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An animated orange
- 1968
Scratching and Painting on Film
Scratching and Painting on Film01968HD
A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform...
- 1976
Autosong
Autosong01976HD
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...