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Rose Hobart

by Joseph Cornell

Artist Joseph Cornell (USA, 1903 - 1972)

DirectorRegi av Joseph Cornell (USA, 1903 - 1972)

ProducerProducerad av Joseph Cornell (USA, 1903 - 1972)

Distributor Distribuerad av Anthology Film Archives

EditorRedigerat/Klippt av: Joseph Cornell (USA, 1903 - 1972)

Date1936

Medium16 mm film, b/w, magnetic sound

Dimensions19:00 min

ClassificationMoving Images

Credit LinePurchase 1980

Countries

United States

Object NumberMOMFi 6

CollectionsThe Pleasuredome

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkJoseph Cornell is best known for his collages of found objects. Here, fragments of the adventure film Escape from Borneo (1931) are assembled into a new stand-alone work – an avant-garde art film. Influenced by Surrealist ideas, he added new music and projected the film at a slower pace through blue glass, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. Cornell was fascinated by the exotic Borneo settings and perhaps most of all by the lead actress, Rose Hobart – his compilation film is effectively a tribute to and portrait of her. At the film’s premiere, Salvador Dalí is said to have been furious that Cornell had anticipated ideas about the film collage, ideas that he himself had wanted to be the first to realise.
Description Musik: Forto Allegre och Belem Bayonne från Holiday in Brazil av Nestor Amaral and Orchestra Ljudmix: Joseph Cornell Selected exhibition history Filmvår! Film och video ur Moderna Museets samling (den 3 mars 2012 - den 22 april 2012) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm "The Pleasure Dome" amerikansk Experimentfilm 1939-1979 / American Experimental Film 1939-1979 (1980) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]"The Pleasure Dome" : amerikansk experimentfilm 1939-1979

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