Film homage Joseph Cornell Rose Hobart 1936 summer monsoon storm in my front yard Casa Grande AZ '05 is a photograph by David Lee Guss which was uploaded on June 6th, 2013.
Film homage Joseph Cornell Rose Hobart 1936 summer monsoon storm in my front yard Casa Grande AZ '05
While noted for his found objects assembled in boxes creations, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) also was an avant-garde filmmaker and cinephile. Rose... more
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Film homage Joseph Cornell Rose Hobart 1936 summer monsoon storm in my front yard Casa Grande AZ '05
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David Lee Guss
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While noted for his found objects assembled in boxes creations, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) also was an avant-garde filmmaker and cinephile. "Rose Hobart" is composed of various snippets from the 1931 potboiler "East of Borneo," starring Charles Bickford (1889-1967) and the then starlet Rose Hobart (1906-2000).
Cornell spliced disparate scenes together from "Borneo" and projected the film through a filter, accompanied by repetitious and disjointed renderings of music from a scratchy 78 RPM record of Nestor Amarai's version of "Holiday in Brazil."
The result is heavily suggestive of surrealism, with its dream like quality. The original screening was through a blue filter, his 1968 version was produced on color stock with a rose hue. While a talkie, Cornell ran "Borneo" without using its sound track.
Cornell's use of "found film" strongly influenced other film artists such as Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs and Stan VanDerBeek.
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June 6th, 2013
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