Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Tony Curtis

Narrator (voice) / Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Joseph Cornell

Self (archive footage)

Age : 68 | Popularity : 8%

Dore Ashton

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Stan Brakhage

Self

Age : 70 | Popularity : 24%

Rudy Burckhardt

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Leila E.B. Luce

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Brian O'Doherty

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

James Rosenquist

Self

Age : 83 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Associate Producer	Lindsay Blair
	Producer	Robert McNab
Directing	Director	Mark Stokes
Editing	Editor	Wayne Balmer
Department	Role	Name

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