Joseph Cornell Movies

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...

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...

Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this...

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

Shorter version with sound

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...

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

Short film by reclusive artist Joseph Cornell, date unknown, colour, silent

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

Carousel - Animal Opera (c.1938), a visual symphony by artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell.

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

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's original compilation from his own film collection is based on the low-budget slapstick cartoons produced in the 1920s and 1930s by...

A shorter version of Joseph Cornell's Nymphlight, an experimental film shot in New York City's Bryant Park, featuring scenes of birds, fountains,...

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.