Joseph Cornell Movies

"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...

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

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.

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

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

Rare film by Joseph Cornell. The same film as "The Children's Jury"

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

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

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...

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 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 untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

An alternate title for Centuries of June

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's ode to the memory of his friend Joyce Hunter is a meditative series of scenes recorded at Flushing Cemetery in Queens, where Cornell...