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'''''Flushing Meadows''''' ([[1965 in film|1965]]) is an American short film by [[Joseph Cornell]] with [[Larry Jordan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/joseph-cornell-white-magic-filmmaker |title=Joseph Cornell: White Magic Filmmaker| website=expcinema.org}}</ref> The film is 8 minutes long, in color, [[16mm film|16mm]], and [[silent film|silent]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.philoctetes.org/calendar/joseph_cornells_flushing_meadows_a_work_of_art_and_mourning/ |title=Joseph Cornell's Flushing Meadows: A Work of Art and Mourning|website=Philoctetes}}</ref>


The film is an ode to the memory of Joyce Hunter, a Queens [[waitress]] Cornell met in 1962.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.artlyst.com/news/joseph-cornell-enigmatic-american-surrealist-artist-explored-in-new-film/|title= Joseph Cornell: Enigmatic American Surrealist Artist Explored In New Film| website=artlyst}}</ref> 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.
'''''Flushing Meadows''''' is an 8 minute long short movie, filmed in [[1965 in film|1965]] by [[Lawrence Jordan]], with director [[Joseph Cornell]]. It is colour, 16&nbsp;mm, and silent.


Hunter was murdered in December 1964.<ref>{{cite web|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKvOVACnRm8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/LKvOVACnRm8| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Joseph Cornell's Flushing Meadows: A Work of Art and Mourning}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The film was produced after her death and is largely a series of scenes from [[Flushing Cemetery]], where Hunter was buried.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/nyregion/neighborhood-report-flushing-poet-enigmatic-film-ode-vanished-love.html?ref=josephcornell|title=Neighborhood Report: Neighborhood-report-flushing-poet-enigmatic-film-ode-vanished-love|work=The New York Times |date=December 21, 2003}}</ref>
The short aired twice at the [[2004 Toronto International Film Festival]], in commemoration of the centennial of Cornell's birth.

The film was first shown publicly at the [[Gramercy Theatre]] in [[New York City]], on December 22, 2003.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}} The short aired twice at the [[2004 Toronto International Film Festival]], in commemoration of the centennial of Cornell's birth.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}

==See also==
*[[List of American films of 1965]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cite book|url=https://mubi.com/films/flushing-meadows |title=Flushing Meadows|publisher= MUBI}}


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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]

See also

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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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