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Artist Profile Al Jarnow





Al Jarnow has produced and directed hundreds of animations for Children's Television Workshop, contributing significantly to SESAME STREET's look and content. His experimental films have been shown in theaters, schools and festivals around the world. Jarnow studied architecture and art history at Dartmouth College and painting and sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum School. In the 1970s he taught film and motion graphics at the Pratt Institute. Currently, with Lisa Greene in Jarnow/Greene Interactives, Inc., he develops and produces "hands-on" software for museums and consumer markets.

Selected Films:
YearTitle Distributor
1975 FOUR QUADRANT EXERCISE MOMA
1976 AUTOSONG MOMA
1977 SHORELINES MOMA
1979 JESSE: THE FIRST YEAR MOMA
1981 INCIDENCE OF THE NORTHERN MOON MOMA
1984 CELESTIAL NAVIGATION MOMA

Jarnow worked at the San Francisco Exploratorium on an interactive project, Tarraforms.

Jarnow is also a founding board member of the Long Island Children's Museum.

Bibliography

New York Nexus Absolut Panushka
"Animation in the Post-Industrial Era." William Moritz. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996, 551-558.

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