Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (1991)
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
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Tony Curtis as Narrator (voice) / Self |
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Joseph Cornell as Self (archive footage) |
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Dore Ashton as Self |
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Stan Brakhage as Self |
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Rudy Burckhardt as Self |
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Leila E.B. Luce as Self |
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Brian O'Doherty as Self |
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James Rosenquist as Self |
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P. Adams Sitney as Self |
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Susan Sontag as Self |
| Production | Robert McNab | Producer |
| Production | Lindsay Blair | Associate Producer |
| Directing | Mark Stokes | Director |
| Editing | Wayne Balmer | Editor |
