Joseph Cornell Movies

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

"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...

Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shorter version with sound

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

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

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

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