Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

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Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

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.

Release Date

1991-11-29

Year

1991

Duration

44m

Status

Released

Score

0.00

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Cast

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Narrator (voice) / Self

Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell

Self (archive footage)

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Dore Ashton

Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

Rudy Burckhardt

Rudy Burckhardt

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Leila E.B. Luce

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Brian O'Doherty

James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist

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P. Adams Sitney

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag