© The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Bildupphovsrätt 2026, Sweden/VAGA, New York, NY
Rose Hobart
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
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1980
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
Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003)
Malmö Konsthall
"The Pleasure Dome" amerikansk Experimentfilm 1939-1979 / American Experimental Film 1939-1979 (1980)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Filmvår! Film och video ur Moderna Museets samling (den 3 mars 2012 - den 22 april 2012)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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