Flushing Meadows (film)

Flushing Meadows (1965) is an American short film by Joseph Cornell with Larry Jordan. [1] The film is 8 minutes long, in color, 16mm, and silent. [2]

The film is an ode to the memory of Joyce Hunter, a Queens waitress Cornell met in 1962. [3] Cornell apparently had an infatuation with Hunter even though she was found to have stolen items and attempted to fence them; Cornell never pressed charges against her.

Hunter was murdered in December 1964.[4] The film was produced after her death and is largely a series of scenes from Flushing Cemetery, where Hunter was buried.[5]

The film was first shown publicly at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City, on December 22, 2003. The short aired twice at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, in commemoration of the centennial of Cornell's birth.

See also

References
  1. "Joseph Cornell: White Magic Filmmaker". expcinema.org.
  2. "Joseph Cornell's Flushing Meadows: A Work of Art and Mourning". Philoctetes.
  3. "Joseph Cornell: Enigmatic American Surrealist Artist Explored In New Film". artlyst.
  4. "Joseph Cornell's Flushing Meadows: A Work of Art and Mourning". YouTube.
  5. "Neighborhood Report: Neighborhood-report-flushing-poet-enigmatic-film-ode-vanished-love". The New York Times. December 21, 2003.


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