Joseph Cornell Movies

In Vaudeville Deluxe, Cornell assembles footage of performers, like a man who balances in his mouth a frame that supports a seated woman. (Release...

The contents consist mostly of found footage, similar to the repurposed imagery favored by Cornell in his other films. Edited with Cornell’s...

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

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...

A short made by Joseph Cornell in the late 1930s-- An ode to imagination, travel and literature. In true Cornellian fashion, the film borrows footage...

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

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

A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

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

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

An alternate title for Centuries of June

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

Shorter version with sound

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