Rose Hobart (1936)

Directed by

Joseph Cornell

Genre

mystery

Country

United States

Runtime

20 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Joseph Cornell edited a 1931 movie into a new surrealist film. It mixes scenes from that movie with footage of an eclipse. The film focuses on the actress Rose Hobart.

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What happens

Rose Hobart is a 1936 experimental collage film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Universal film East of Borneo (1931) 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 film of an eclipse. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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