Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Nov 29, 1991

0h 44m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Narrator (voice) / Self

Tony Curtis

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Cornell

Self

Dore Ashton

Self

Stan Brakhage

Self

Rudy Burckhardt

Self

Leila E.B. Luce

Self

Brian O'Doherty

Self

James Rosenquist

Self

P. Adams Sitney

Self

Susan Sontag

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