Al Jarnow
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
Past event
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Film/Video
- Season
- Fall 2023
- DATE
- OCT 27
- TIME
- FRI, 8 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 65 minutes
- COUNTRY
- USA
- Program
- Download Program Notes (PDF)
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About
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation returns to REDCAT with a special retrospective screening of films by filmmaker and artist Al Jarnow. Since the late 1960s, Jarnow has created hundreds of animated films, including dozens of shorts for “Sesame Street” and PBS and his personal experimental films that bridge science and the quotidian, using time-lapse, drawing, and stop-motion techniques. Jarnow will present a program of his films in person, followed by an onstage conversation with Eyeworks Festival curators Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré. Founded in 2010, Eyeworks is a curatorial project dedicated to exhibiting distinctive, personal, and visionary experimental films that use the technique of animation.
The program includes a post-screening talk with Al Jarnow, moderated by Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré.
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Jarnow is an artist driven by an enviable desire to endlessly chase ideas, taking new perspectives and trying out all approaches.
—
Eleanor McKeown, Electric Sheep
about the artist
For over 50 years, Al Jarnow has used animation in order to perceive ways the universe moves, through light, time, scale, and cycles. His film works are in the collection of MoMA and the Met, and he created over 100 pieces for PBS, including iconic works for “Sesame Street” and “3-2-1 Contact.” Through his company Protozone, he has created interactive software and educational exhibits for museums that include his ongoing interest in waves, shorelines, rocks, patterns, and geometry. Jarnow currently works with algorithmic software compositions and makes ephemeral “beachworks” using found materials on the beaches near his home on Long Island, New York.
list of films
The Owl and the Pussycat (1968)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 90 sec.
Yak
Dir. Al Jarnow, 1 min.
Tondo (1973)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 2 min.
Plans and Elevations (1980)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 3 min.
Cosmic Letter
Dir. Al Jarnow, 1 min.
Perspectives
Dir. Al Jarnow, 1 min.
Four Quadrant Exercises (1975)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 3 min.
Facial Recognition
Dir. Al Jarnow, 3 min.
Skeletons
Dir. Al Jarnow, 1 min.
Litter Rap
Dir. Al Jarnow, 90 sec.
Number 17 Rap
Dir. Al Jarnow, 1 min.
Cubits (1978)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 4 min.
Autosong (1976)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 9 min.
Orange
Dir. Al Jarnow, 2 min.
Earth Works
Dir. Al Jarnow, 2 min.
Incidence of the Northern Moon (1980)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 4 min.
Cosmic Clock
Dir. Al Jarnow, 2 min.
Jesse the First Year (1979)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 2 min.
Shorelines (1977)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 3 min.
Celestial Navigations (1985)
Dir. Al Jarnow, 14 min.
