Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (1991)

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

1991

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Mark Stokes

Cast

Brian O'Doherty as Self

Dore Ashton as Self

James Rosenquist as Self

Joseph Cornell as Self (archive footage)

Leila E.B. Luce as Self

P. Adams Sitney as Self

Rudy Burckhardt as Self

Stan Brakhage as Self