Al Jarnow Movies

An animated orange

Kids rapping about the number 7.

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

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...

The letter M in various typefaces.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

The letter Z in various typefaces.

The letter X in various typefaces.

Experimental computer imagery

A parade of animated cats.

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

Abstract geometric diagrams come to life.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

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

In what would become a familiar theme throughout his carrer, Jarnow explores the earth from above, invoking Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion and the...

Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.

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

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.