Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991•44m•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Mark Stokes
Languages
English
Cast
Tony Curtis
Narrator (voice) / Self
Joseph Cornell
Self (archive footage)
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
Self
Production
Producer
Robert McNab
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