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PLENTY <\/strong>8: JOSEPH CORNELL The screening series PLENTY proposes a new way of looking at artists\u2019 films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it.<\/p>\n THE AVIARY \/ NYMPHLIGHT \/ A FABLE FOR FOUNTAINS<\/strong> \u201cJoseph Cornell describes the marginal area where the conscious and the unconscious meet.\u201d (P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film<\/em>)<\/p>\n The artist Joseph Cornell (1903-72) is best known for his enigmatic box constructions. His films likewise used found materials, but on occasion he employed filmmakers Rudy Burckhardt, Stan Brakhage or Larry Jordan to photograph original footage under his direction.<\/p>\n PLENTY, a free monthly screening series selected by Mark Webber, forms part of the \u201cBrief Habits\u201d programme curated by Shama Khanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PLENTY 8: JOSEPH CORNELL Monday 20 June 2011, at 7pm London E:vent Gallery The screening series PLENTY proposes a new way of looking at artists\u2019 films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Monday 20 June 2011, at 7pm
\nLondon E:vent Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJoseph Cornell & Rudy Burckhardt, USA, 1955-57, 16mm, b\/w & colour, sound, 19 min
\n<\/strong>A trilogy of films, united on a single reel, which offer a magical glimpse at New York long since passed. In each, a young woman drifts through the city\u2019s streets and parks, embodying the artists\u2019 distinctive qualities of melancholia and childlike wonder.<\/p>\n