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Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

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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.

Featured Crew

Mark Stokes
Director
Lindsay Blair
Associate Producer

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Tony Curtis
Narrator (voice) / Self
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Joseph Cornell
Self (archive footage)

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