Joseph Cornell Movies

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

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...

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.

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

"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...

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...

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

Short film by Joseph Cornell.

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America'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...

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

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

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.