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...

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

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...

Short film by Joseph Cornell.

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

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

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...

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

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

"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...

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.

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.

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