Kurzfilmprogramm: Joseph Cornell

Keynote by Bruce Posner and André Habib and films

This program offers a virtual tour of the methods and means used by US artist Joseph Cornell (1905-1972) in his work with the medium of film, using film examples and excerpts. His cinematic work is closely linked to his role as an obsessive collector and exhibitor of early silent films, advertising photographs and long-playing records, but also bears witness to his long-standing friendships with protagonists from the fields of art, film, criticism, galleries and museums. The eclectic short film program illustrates Cornell's unique appreciation of early cinema, which he freely appropriated in his silent film collages. Also presented are some influential and extremely rare contemporary works in which one can recognize a reference to Cornell's cinema. In the Cornellian spirit, prone to ineffable, inexplicable and baffling gestures, the adventurous cine-flaneur and flaneuse can discover a dreamlike, enigmatic and innovative experimental approach to "long" early cinema. (Bruce Posner)

Photo: Austrian Film Museum