Celestial Navigations: The Short Films Of Al JarnowFilm2010Celestial Navigations: The Short Films Of Al JarnowA collection of 45 shorts from artist and filmmaker Al Jarnow.Open details →
Film1992Letters O, P, and RWords that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation.Open details →
Film★ 5.61987Academy Leader VariationsTwenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.Open details →
Film1984Celestial NavigationBeginning with his work for a certain public television show that featured a big yellow bird, Al Jarnow captured life's scientific minutia and boiled it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters and counting vampires. Coupling time-lapse, stop motion, and cell animation with simple objects found in every day life, Jarnow deconstructed the world for an entire generation.Open details →
Film1984Shell LifeShells create intricate patterns in this short stop-motion animation.Open details →
Moving DayFilm1983Moving DayDaylight moves through a room. Or is it the room that moves?Open details →
Earth WorksFilm1983Earth WorksBeach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.Open details →
Incidence of the Northern MoonFilm1981Incidence of the Northern MoonA seashell belonging to a northern moon snail twists and turns 360 degrees in multiple wooden homemade contraptions and through contact sheets at a progressively rapid pace, before finally synthesizing the gnomic growth of the spiral shell and exploring the phenomena of virtual and real space and time. Directed by Al Jarnow.Open details →
Film1980ArchitectureA stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive structures evolve into larger buildings...Open details →
CubeFilm1979CubeA filmed exercise that follows in the path of Rotating Cubic Grid and Cubits, the predictably titled Cube features cubes of varying shapes and size sliding around and growing into and out of one another, demonstrating how multiple parts can make up a whole.Open details →
Cosmic ClockFilm★ 7.01979Cosmic ClockA mind-twisting time-lapse beginning on a hill just outside town, doing for the concept of time what Charles and Ray Eames's 1968 film The Powers of Ten did for space. One billion years in two minutes.Open details →
Film1979Jesse: The First YearFor a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.Open details →
SkeletonsFilm★ 5.01979SkeletonsA short film made of cel drawings, showing us how various mammals, plants and objects all share similar skeletal structures. Produced for Sesame Street.Open details →
Film2009Asymmetric Cycles: The Work of Al JarnowDocumentary about the experimental animator.Open details →
