Joseph Cornell Movies

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

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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 short film where circus performers entertain children.

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...

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...

Footage shot for Cornell by Rudy Burckhardt in December 1955 of a woman buying chestnuts from a street vendor and watching people and birds in a city...

Short film 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...

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

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...

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.