Most Popular Al Jarnow Trailers
Total trailers found: 52
Shell Life Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Shells create intricate patterns in this short stop-motion animation.
Architecture Trailer (1980)
03 May 1980
A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture.
Map Projections Trailer (1977)
01 May 1977
In what would become a familiar theme throughout his carrer, Jarnow explores the earth from above, invoking Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion and the Gnomic map to illustrate different geometric and compromise projections.
Skeletons Trailer (1979)
03 May 1979
A short film made of cel drawings, showing us how various mammals, plants and objects all share similar skeletal structures.
The Owl & the Pussycat Trailer (1968)
27 April 1968
Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.
Digging to China Trailer (1977)
01 May 1977
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.
Cosmic Letter Trailer (1979)
03 May 1979
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 reaches of the universe.
Cosmic Clock Trailer (1979)
03 May 1979
A 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.
Earth Works Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.
Ake & Ch Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.
Perspectives Trailer (1977)
01 May 1977
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.
Jesse: The First Year Trailer (1979)
03 May 1979
For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.
Dinosaur Matrix Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.
Cube Trailer (1979)
03 May 1979
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 sliding around and growing into and out of one another, demonstrating how multiple parts can make up a whole.
Facial Recognition Trailer (1978)
03 May 1978
A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.
Yak Trailer (1970)
28 April 1970
Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y.
Celestial Navigation Trailer (1984)
28 April 1984
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 it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters and counting vampires.
Cubits Trailer (1978)
03 May 1978
Jarnow adapts an architectural grid catalogue of cubic rotations in order to explore a direct relationship between animation procedure and logical numerical operations.
Letters O, P, and R Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation.
Tondo Trailer (1973)
27 April 1973
Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating etchings, spirograms and other surreal realities.
Shorelines Trailer (1977)
01 May 1977
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 we look at nature through various cinematic techniques.
Autosong Trailer (1976)
29 April 1976
When Jill Jarnow won a blue Volkswagon in a design contest, and named the car Wart after the young king Arthur in T.
Audition Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
A young woman grapples with the decision of following her dream of an acting career or marrying and having babies with the man she loves.
Rotating Cubic Grid Trailer (1975)
29 April 1975
The primary motif in this silent picture is a grid that controls the shapes and motions of forms contained within the framework of a rotating cube.
Academy Leader Variations Trailer (1987)
12 April 1987
Twenty 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.
Moving Day Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Daylight moves through a room. Or is it the room that moves?
Incidence of the Northern Moon Trailer (1981)
02 January 1981
A 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.
Four Quadrant Exercise Trailer (1975)
29 April 1975
Intended to be an "animation machine," Four Quadrant Exercise finds Jarnow adapting a perspective system, enabling him to render complex motions almost automatically.
Scratching and Painting on Film Trailer (1968)
27 April 1968
A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith.
Asymmetric Cycles: The Work of Al Jarnow Trailer (2009)
30 September 2009
Documentary about the experimental animator.
Celestial Navigations: The Short Films Of Al Jarnow Trailer (2010)
03 February 2010
A collection of 45 shorts from artist and filmmaker Al Jarnow.
