From: Lundgren (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jul 02 2009 - 03:42:45 PDT
Cornells filmcareer did end, his filmmaking did not.
After Dalí screamed "you stole my dream" running out angrily from the
screening of Rose Hobart I don't think he publicly screened anything for the
rest of his life...
Björn Lundgren
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Polta" <email suppressed>
To: <email suppressed>
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: collage/cornell
> Something that is being left out of this dicussion of Cornell is that his
> filmmaking "career" may have begun with ROSE HOBART but it certainly did
> not end there. As documented in the book Jeanne mentions (and elsewhere),
> Cornell made numerous "collage" or "found footage" films, some
> (BOOKSTALLS, THE CHILDRENS PARTY, et al.) which seem to come from single
> films or maybe one or two as well, as well as some films (my fave: BY
> NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR) which are assembled from incredibly diverse
> arrays of source material (BY NIGHT... even includes a shot of Ms.
> Hobart).
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> Steve Polta
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> --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Jeanne LIOTTA <email suppressed> wrote:
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>> From: Jeanne LIOTTA <email suppressed>
>> Subject: Re: collage/cornell
>> To: email suppressed
>> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 8:23 AM
>> Yes! Bill Wees's book Recycled Images
>> is *awesome* and can only be purchased from Anthology Film
>> Archives. The interviews with various makers are just
>> great---I also use it regularly for a course by the same
>> name -thanks Bill!- starting with early 20thc collage in the
>> fine arts ending with copyright/free culture concerns.
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>> +fyi: I wrote a short essay on Joseph Cornell films and
>> practices for the SF MOMA 'Navigating the Imagination'
>> Cornell exhibition, which can be purchased hard copy for
>> *three dollars* from the SF Cinematheque website. Includes
>> program notes for the Cornell and Cornell-related screenings
>> organized by SF Cin.
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>> Still available, right Steve P?
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>> http://www.sfcinematheque.org/monographs.shtml
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>> www.jeanneliotta.net
>> www.youtube.com/zerojeanli
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