Three by Cornell (1940)

Includes CHILDRENS PARTY COTILLION THE MIDNIGHT PARTY These are the first three of the six films Cornell gave me to finish before he died I have not changed the editing structure I have made the films printable They are the first known fully collaged films ie films made from found footage and were done sometime in the 40s Cornell combines Vaudeville jugglers animal acts circus performers children eating and dancing science demonstrations mythical excerpts and crucial freezeframes of faces into a timeless structure totally unconcerned with our usual expectations of montage or cinematic progression He collects images and preserves them in some kind of cinematic suspension that is hard impossible to describe But its a delight to anyone whose soul has not been squashed by the heavy dictates of Art