Al Jarnow Movies

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

Kids rapping about the number 17.

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

Experimental computer imagery

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

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

A parade of animated cats.

A train struggles to stay on track.

A story about cooperation.

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive...

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

For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.

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...

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...

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

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.