By Night with Torch and Spear. n.d. By Joseph Cornell

(10/29/00)

This is another collage film which was found among Cornell's films. It begins with images of smelting or metal-working and contrasts these with images of primitive tribes using weapons. So the film links together the primitive and the modern. The images of molten metal in a modern foundry are tinted a blazing red. There are also microscopic images or images of larvae. I am not sure what the point was of that.

I am not sure, but I think this film has a lot of upside-down footage. I didn't find this film particularly interesting; what appeal it did have lay in its crudity, its homeliness.