Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (1991)

N/A 44 min Movie
Documentary

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.

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Cast

Tony Curtis Tony Curtis Narrator (voice) / Self
Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell Self (archive footage)
Dore Ashton Dore Ashton Self
Stan Brakhage Stan Brakhage Self
Rudy Burckhardt Rudy Burckhardt Self
Leila E.B. Luce Leila E.B. Luce Self
Brian O'Doherty Brian O'Doherty Self
James Rosenquist James Rosenquist Self
P. Adams Sitney P. Adams Sitney Self
Susan Sontag Susan Sontag Self

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