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,...

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.

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

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

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...

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.