Joseph Cornell The Aviary (made with Rudy Burkhardt) (1955)
The Aviary is about a park in New York and the birds that inhabit it. The blackandwhite photography gives it a very nice feel of a past. I especially liked the bare branches of trees. This film captures a feel of New York in the past as some of us remember it. John C. , Film Notes The films of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell (19031972) are as unique as his famous box constructions. Though rarely exhibited during his lifetime, these mysterious works nonetheless have had a deep and lasting influence on the world of avantgarde filmmaking. His entire body of film numbers some thirtyodd works, encompassing the incomplete and the fragmentary. It can be said that Cornell made two kinds of films in two distinct periods of activity: collage films, made by recombining found materials, and directed films, where he worked with cinematographers (including Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt and Larry Jordan) to document his fantasy, experience of wandering in New York. Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta
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