Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 29, 1991

Runtime

0h 44m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Director

Mark Stokes

Description

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.