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.

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

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 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...

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

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

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...

Short film by Joseph Cornell.

"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...

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

Joseph Cornell's original compilation from his own film collection is based on the low-budget slapstick cartoons produced in the 1920s and 1930s by...

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

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.

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.