Joseph Cornell. Worlds in a Box - ACE231.6

Map of New York, film of Coney Island, sea, beach, funfair, shooting gallery with moving targets. VO Cornell’s words about visiting Coney Island one evening in 1944. Box with birds and target shapes. O’Doherty on Cornell’s fascination with fairground toys and shooting games. Bird-target box and others, fairground prizes, Brakhage feels film-making helped free Cornell’s "child spirit". Excerpts from Nymphlight (1957) intercut with shots of Burckhardt filming in Bryant Park. Part Burckhardt VO; part VO Cornell’s words. Brakhage on Cornell’s childishness, and a painful "adolescence" in his 60s.