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Flushing Meadows (film)

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Flushing Meadows
Directed byJoseph Cornell
StarringLarry Jordan
Running time
8 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

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.[citation needed] The short aired twice at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, in commemoration of the centennial of Cornell's birth.[citation needed]

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References

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  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. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
  5. ^ "Neighborhood Report: Neighborhood-report-flushing-poet-enigmatic-film-ode-vanished-love". The New York Times. December 21, 2003.
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