Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

November 29, 1991 | 44 min

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

Cast

Naomi Scott

Tony Curtis

Naomi Scott

Dore Ashton

Naomi Scott

Leila E.B. Luce

Naomi Scott

Brian O'Doherty

Naomi Scott

James Rosenquist

Naomi Scott

P. Adams Sitney

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