Joseph Cornell Movies

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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...

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...

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.

Short film by Joseph Cornell.

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

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 short made by Joseph Cornell in the late 1930s-- An ode to imagination, travel and literature. In true Cornellian fashion, the film borrows footage...

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

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.

"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...

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

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

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