Joseph Cornell Movies

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

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

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...

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

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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."

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...

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

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 film composed of the out-takes from Brakhage’s The Wonder Ring (1955), which Cornell had commissioned. There has been a long-standing...

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

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

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

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