Movies

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

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

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.

"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...

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

Short film by Joseph Cornell.

The contents consist mostly of found footage, similar to the repurposed imagery favored by Cornell in his other films. Edited with Cornell’s...

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

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