Joseph Cornell's "Rose Hobart" (1936) is a short, 19 minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film "East of Borneo" into one of America's m...
Joseph Cornell's "Rose Hobart" (1936) is a short, 19 minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film "East of Borneo" into one of America's most famous surrealist short films. Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her. The piece consists of snippets from East of Borneo combined with shots from a documentary of an eclipse. When Cornell screened the film, he projected it through a piece of blue glass and slowed the speed of projection to that of a silent film. The original soundtrack is removed, and the film is accompanied instead by "Forte Allegre" and "Belem Bayonne", two songs from Nestor Amaral's "Holiday in Brazil," a record that Cornell had found at a junk shop. (more on part 2)
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Fascinating film! I had read about this recently and wondered if there was still a print in existence. Good old YouTube comes through again. I think you can make a connection between this film and later films by Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol and even up to David Lynch's "dreamier" films.
I understand Cornell's fascination with Hobart because I share it. She's mesmerizing. For those that might be interested, Rose wrote an autobiography called "A steady Digression to a Fixed Point". Not Pulitzer material (she wrote it when she was 87) but it does provide an insight into a most beautiful and charismatic woman.
During the screening, Dali became outraged at Cornell's movie, claiming he had just had the same idea of applying collage techniques to film. After the screening, Dali remarked to Cornell that he should stick to making boxes and to stop making films. Traumatized by this event, the shy, retiring Cornell never showed his films publicly again. - Wikipedia.
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i like people who upload this kind of amazing history stuf of cinema
btw: excuse me for my english !
I think you can make a connection between this film and later films by Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol and even up to David Lynch's "dreamier" films.
Dali was a dick. The art scene never changes.