Jane Aaron

Sesame Street: Let's Eat! Funny Food Songs

After working hard, Grover has finally gotten a job as a waiter at the hot restaurant in town, Planet Storybook. Now, he can help kids learn about healthy eating while he serves up some of the biggest names in nursery rhymes (such as Miss Muffet). Some of the fun food songs include "Cereal Girl" and "The Most Important Meal of the Day," as well as a special tune from Cookie Monster assuring kids that there is more to food than cookies.

Sesame Street: The Alphabet Jungle Game

Elmo, Zoe and Telly are exploring the Alphabet Jungle, where letters grow on trees. Every letter from A to Y leads them on an animated alphabet adventure. But what about Z? What will happen if Zoe can't find her favorite letter? Come play the Alphabet Jungle Game and you'll find out!

This Time Around

The camera breathlessly traverses landscapes and whirls into abstraction, all the while eye-ing fanciful foreground objects of domestic life doing their own dizzy dervish choreography, until the hand of the artist reveals the true scale. Just out of camera view are Aaron’s hand-made rigs that guide the dynamic movement.

Set in Motion

Colored bars and other shapes travel across objects inside the rooms of a house.

Academy Leader Variations

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

Traveling Light

Light and shadows travel across the inside of a house.

Remains To Be Seen

Aaron's drawn imaginary world is seen visually and physically embedded in the real world.

Interior Designs

A 5-minute look at a room through photography and animation.

In Plain Sight

Animation and real world combined—a uniquely inventive film that is fun for children while adults can ponder its paradoxes of life vs. art, and real vs. synthetic time.

JGLNG

In JGLNG, Blumberg achieves a graphic visual composition that cunningly encircles both abstraction and documentation. With an economy of means, he renders the ordinary extraordinary, superimposing two recorded images of a single event -- a juggler juggling.

A Brand New Day

Annie Mae starts her day with fanciful looks out her window, and then reality sets in.