Joseph Cornell Movies

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.

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

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.

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

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

Shorter version with sound

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

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

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

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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...

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