92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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aljarnow
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Friday Feb 12, 2010 (7pm)
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- Price
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$12.00
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Al Jarnow in person for Q&A following the 7pm screening and introducing the 9pm screening.
Tens of millions of people have seen these films. Nobody knows who made them. Curled up on our couches in the wee hours of the morning, in reruns and nostalgic YouTube forwards, filmmaker Al Jarnow has touched our lives and changed the way we look at the world without us ever knowing.
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. Coupling time-lapse, stop motion and cell animation with simple objects found in every day life, Jarnow deconstructed the world for an entire generation. From the third floor of his Long Island gingerbread home, his mind wandered beyond the confines of educational programming. Delving into New York's avant-garde film scene alongside Harry Smith, Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, Jarnow created a body of awe-inspiring films that remain in the collections of MOMA and Pompidou Center.
The screening will include 60 minutes of shorts followed by a short documentary that deconstructs his creative process and Al will introduce both shows and do a Q&A after the 7pm show.
