Al Jarnow Movies

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

The letter X in various typefaces.

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

Kids rapping about the number 17.

Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.

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...

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

Documentary about the experimental animator.

A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform...

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...

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

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.

A parade of animated cats.

A story about cooperation.

Shapes come to life on a pegboard.

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...

Kids rapping about the number 7.

The letter M in various typefaces.

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.