Joseph Cornell Movies

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

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

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

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...

Short film by Joseph Cornell.

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

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

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...

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.