Joseph Cornell Movies

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

Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.

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

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

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

Lawrence Jordan's portrait of the reclusive artist 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...

A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...

"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...

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

Shorter version with sound

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

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

An alternate title for Centuries of June

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

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection