Joseph Cornell Movies

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

Short film by 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...

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

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

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.

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

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