Movies: Al Jarnow

A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform self portraiture, lettering tests and images traced from other films including a Charlie Chaplin sho...

Slated for inclusions on the Boston based Infinity Factory educational program alongside Map Projections, Digging to China explores a familiar childhood activity on a global scale....

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

Documentary about the experimental animator....

A parade of animated cats....

Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation....

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

The letter M in various typefaces....

Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by different hands. Objects twist and turn, a drawing resolving into a wall painting, as the perspective shif...

Kids rapping about the number 11....

Mixed animation set to music....

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city....

The letter Z in various typefaces....

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

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd....

The letter X in various typefaces....

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Things you can do with a single sheet of paper....

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket....

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