Flushing Meadows (film)

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| director = Joseph Cornell

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| starring = Larry Jordan

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| runtime = 8 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent

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Flushing Meadows (1965) is an American short film by Joseph Cornell with Larry Jordan.{{cite web|url=https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/joseph-cornell-white-magic-filmmaker |title=Joseph Cornell: White Magic Filmmaker| website=expcinema.org}} The film is 8 minutes long, in color, 16mm, and silent.{{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}}

The film is an ode to the memory of Joyce Hunter, a Queens waitress Cornell met in 1962.{{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}} 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.{{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}} The film was produced after her death and is largely a series of scenes from Flushing Cemetery, where Hunter was buried.{{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}}

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}}