Al Jarnow Movies

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

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...

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.

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...

Experimental computer imagery

A parade of animated cats.

The letter M in various typefaces.

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

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

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

A train struggles to stay on track.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

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

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.

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...

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....

Mixed animation set to music.