Film.... (18:44) Joseph Cornell (American, Surrealism, 1903–1972): Rose Hobart, 1936. Experimental collage film. 19 minutes (18:44, YouTube). In 2001, Rose Hobart was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Rose Hobart (1936) is a 19-minute experimental collage film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Universal film East of Borneo (1931) into one of Americas 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 film of an eclipse. Salvador Dalí was in the audience, but halfway through the film, he knocked over the projector in a rage. “My idea for a film is exactly that, and I was going to propose it to someone who would pay to have it made,” he said. I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it. Other versions of Dalís accusation tend to the more poetic: He stole it from my subconscious! or even He stole my dreams!” Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Hobart_(film)
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:17:08 +0000