How Joseph Cornell became an artist

The American collage artist Joseph Cornell produced one of the earliest found films with his reassembly of East of Borneo, combined with pieces of other films, into a new work he titled Rose Hobart after the leading actress.

Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) – Digitally Remastered and Restored Edition from Andrew Ritchey on Vimeo.

His film is notable for its Surrealist form and influence on later filmmakers. When Salvador Dalí saw the film, he was famously enraged, believing Cornell had stolen the idea from his thoughts. But Adrian Brunel made, twelve years before, Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924) and Henri Storck conceived, for years earlier, Story of the Unknown soldier (1932).