Joseph Cornell Movies

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

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

"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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ode to the memory of his friend Joyce Hunter is a meditative series of scenes recorded at Flushing Cemetery in Queens, where 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 short film where circus performers entertain children.

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.

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

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

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.