Joseph Cornell Movies

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...

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 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 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.

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

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

"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 film where circus performers entertain children.

Footage shot for Cornell by Rudy Burckhardt in December 1955 of a woman buying chestnuts from a street vendor and watching people and birds in a city...

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

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

Short film by Joseph Cornell.

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

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

3 screen tests by 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.