Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (movie)

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Mark Stokes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 11/29/1991
  • Run time: 44 min.

Movie description

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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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Role(s): Narrator (voice) / Self

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Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell

Role(s): Self (archive footage)

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Dore Ashton

Dore Ashton

Role(s): Self

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Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

Role(s): Self

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Rudy Burckhardt

Rudy Burckhardt

Role(s): Self

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