Gnir Rednow

USA 1955, 16mm, col, silent, 6:00 min

realized by:

Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell

keywords:

fragment

notes:

• Also credited as 10 min.

• Produced from 1955 - 196?

available copies:

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

available for rent

The Film-Makers' Cooperative:

available for rent

synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992

"This is Cornell's mirrored version of THE WONDER RING. (Actually
its title should be printed as exact mirror image of WONDER RING;
but, due to printing problems, it has come to be addressed in the
above fashion and is now regularly known as such.) The film is
also so created by Cornell as to be projectionable 4 ways:
head-to-tail, tail-to-head (projector always running forward) and the
film-flipped versions of the above two. Joseph Cornell considered
the film unfinished. Several years before his death he gave it to
me, along with several strips of film loose in the can. He stated
that he could not weave these strips in and requested that I
finish editing the film. As I was never able to improve upon his
'unfinished' edit of it, this print is exactly as he sent it to
me then. The 5 or 6 seconds he couldn't find any place for have,
accordingly, been left out." --Stan Brakhage

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