Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
Vanille is a little Parisian girl who has just arrived in Guadeloupe. She will be immersed in an exotic and mysterious adventure, meeting picturesque characters and magical flowers, all embellished with a touch of Creole. These holidays promise to be rich and full of surprises!
An animated short film about two flocks of sheep and their shepherds who are at odds with one another and attempting to keep them separated.
Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )
Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace.
A film-noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become victims of this evil force.
Short stop motion animation with finger nails.
Propulsive Polish avant-garde animation following clouds of shapes that resemble nebulae or stellar surfaces.
A man wants to catch an unknown fish and name it, but troubles arise when someone else catches the fish before him. What whacky shenanigans could possibly come from that?
Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."
Experimental narrative with comedy and horror made via long-distance collaboration between two artists.
Kangqiao is an ordinary office girl, and her boyfriend Zhang Yu is a DJ on a midnight radio show. They only meet for dinner from 6 to 9 in the evening. Part of the short-films series "美好2012之勇敢愛"
Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.
A stream of consciousness experiment committed directly to celluloid, Jarnow pays homage to Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith. Abstract designs transform self portraiture, lettering tests and images traced from other films including a Charlie Chaplin short.