Joseph Cornell Movies

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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.

An alternate title for Centuries of June

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

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

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...

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

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

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

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

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