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
  • 1977
    Perspectives

    Perspectives

    Perspectives

    01977HD

    Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by...

    Perspectives
  • 1991
    The Letter X

    The Letter X

    The Letter X

    01991HD

    The letter X in various typefaces.

    The Letter X
  • 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
    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
  • 1987
    Academy Leader Variations

    Academy Leader Variations

    Academy Leader Variations

    51987HD

    Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations...

    Academy Leader Variations
  • 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
  • 1981
    Incidence of the Northern Moon

    Incidence of the Northern Moon

    Incidence of the Northern Moon

    01981HD

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

    Incidence of the Northern Moon
  • 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
  • 1983
    Moving Day

    Moving Day

    Moving Day

    01983HD

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

    Moving Day
  • 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
  • 1995
    Paper Origami

    Paper Origami

    Paper Origami

    01995HD

    Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

    Paper Origami
  • 1978
    Facial Recognition

    Facial Recognition

    Facial Recognition

    01978HD

    A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

    Facial Recognition
  • 1980
    Pegboard

    Pegboard

    Pegboard

    01980HD

    Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

    Pegboard
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1980
    Audition

    Audition

    Audition

    01980HD

    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.

    Audition
  • 1980
    Train

    Train

    Train

    6.11980HD

    A train struggles to stay on track.

    Train
  • 1991
    The Letter M

    The Letter M

    The Letter M

    01991HD

    The letter M in various typefaces.

    The Letter M