Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

🎞️ Movie 44 min GB
โ˜… 7.7 /10 1991

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.

Cast

Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage
Self
Self
Rudy Burckhardt
Rudy Burckhardt
Self
Self
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
Self
Self - Narrator
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
Self
Self
P. Adams Sitney
P. Adams Sitney
Self
Self
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Self
Self