Joseph Cornell Movies

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to...

Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children's party.

A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He...

Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.

Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell.

Shorter version with sound

One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show about nature.

Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.

A couple on a street corner and in a cafe, birds circling above the city street, window displays in a shop.

Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

Joseph Cornell's ode to the memory of his friend Joyce Hunter is a meditative series of scenes recorded at Flushing Cemetery in Queens, where Cornell...

Joseph Cornell film with input from Rudolph Burckhardt. Also the title to one of Cornell's collages.

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

Joseph Cornell shot footage on Mulberry Street with Rudolph Burckhardt and made this silent film. Burckhardt would make his own sound version, "What...

Slightly different version of Cornell's Mulberry Street. Scenes of Mulberry Street on New York City's Lower East Side, as seen from the point of view...