"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.
Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.
An encounter in the woods is captured on a trail cam.
A subjective view of an UFO. Shot frame-by-frame along the Tama River.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace.
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
Sara is the protector of her brother Soma. In order to keep Soma's feelings from being hurt, Sara mu...
Demonstration of the rapid poisoning of a cat hung up in a cloth, strychnine as a trigger of the ton...
The movie shows the consequences of total and partial removal of the epithelial bodies in a cat
Two cats housed in a glass box, one of which had received a small amount of atropine in the prelimin...
Compulsory locomotion and continuous circular movement to the operated side without orientation in c...
Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit, led by Kapaemahu, brought certai...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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 Bra...
Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take o...
Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. A...
Intended to be an "animation machine," Four Quadrant Exercise finds Jarnow adapting a perspective sy...
The primary motif in this silent picture is a grid that controls the shapes and motions of forms con...
This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.