Movies: Joseph Cornell

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...

In Vaudeville Deluxe, Cornell assembles footage of performers, like a man who balances in his mouth a frame that supports a seated woman. (Release date is approximately 1940s.)...

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color....

Joseph Cornell film from 1954, black & white....

Rare film by Joseph Cornell....

The contents consist mostly of found footage, similar to the repurposed imagery favored by Cornell in his other films. Edited with Cornell’s distinctive splicing tape, the 23-minute film was composed by the artist sometime between 1940 and 1955....

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 the Weiss Brothers, which Cornell turns into a parody of newsreels through subtle textual intervention...

...

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color...

Short film by Rudy Burckhardt and Joseph Cornell. “Slightly symbolic and strangely lyric.”–Alex Katz, Art News....

Short film by Joseph Cornell, date unknown, color, silent...