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...

"I have not changed the editing structure. I have made the films printable. They are the first known fully collaged films, i.e., films made from...

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

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 montage of elephants, children, Native Americans, logging, a barnstormer, a blimp, people on and in the water, and a man who sings like a bird.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

A film composed of the out-takes from Brakhage’s The Wonder Ring (1955), which Cornell had commissioned. There has been a long-standing...

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

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