Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

1991 NR 44m 7.7

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...

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Info about Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Originally Released: Nov 29, 1991

Production Country: United States

Genres: Documentary