Thursday, December 6, 2007, 3:00 pm
Joseph Cornell: Films III
Collaborations and Cinematic Influences
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
151 Third Street (between Mission & Howard Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Presented in association with SFMOMA
Program 3 will screen twice: Oct 26 & Dec 6
While Cornell’s best known films are collages of pre-existing material produced in relative privacy, Cornell briefly collaborated with filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt and Lawrence Jordan, deeply influencing the work of each of these significant artists. This program presents a sampling of this collaborative work with a selection of recent works continuing Cornell’s fascinations with film, the found object and the magic of the everyday. (Steve Polta)
Screening: Two films by Lawrence Jordan: Cornell, 1965, a rare film portrait of the artist and Our Lady of the Sphere; Centuries of June and Wonder Ring by Stan Brakhage (and Cornell’s response to the latter, GniR RednoW); What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street by Rudy Burckhardt (assembled from footage shot for Cornell’s Mulberry Street); The Secret Story by Janie Geiser; flower, the boy, the librarian by Stephanie Barber; What Makes Day and Night by Jeanne Liotta; Her Fragrant Emulsion by Lewis Klahr; Oona’s Veil by Brian Frye; and Cornell’s own Rose Hobart.