USA 16mm, col, silent, 25:00 min
- realized by:
- Joseph Cornell, Larry Jordan
- keywords:
- tinted film, found-footage
- available copies:
- Canyon Cinema Inc.:
- 16mm, 18fps
- available for rent
- synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992
- These are the first three of the six films Cornell gave me tofinish before he died. I have not changed the editing structure.I have made the films printable. They are the first known fullycollaged films, i.e. films made from found footage, and were donesometime in the '40s. Cornell combines Vaudeville jugglers, animal acts, circus performers, children eating and dancing,science demonstrations, mythical excerpts, and crucial freeze-frames of faces into a timeless structure, totally unconcernedwith our usual expectations of "montage" or cinematic progression. He collects images and preserves them in some kind ofcinematic suspension that is hard -- impossible -- to describe. Butit's a delight to anyone whose soul has not been squashed by theheavy dictates of Art. --L.J.
Permanent collection: Chicago Art Institute: Austrian FilmMuseum; Pompidou Center, Paris; Houston Art Center; Museum ofModern Art, N.Y.; Anthology Film Archives; Pacific Film Archive.
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