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James Broughton was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries as well as a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, serving the community as Sister Sermonetta. His work is quintessentially Californian – exploring and engaging the polar frontiers of wildness and civility, male and female, body and spirit—with the crash of Pacific Ocean waves echoing throughout. "Ultimately I have learned more about poetry / from music and magic than from literature," he wrote.
Most Popular James Broughton Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
01 May 1969
This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.
09 March 2013
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960s and '70s to profoundly embrace life and ‘follow your own weird’.
25 November 1971
James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small miracle of the ordinary.
16 October 1953
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
27 August 1948
Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends.
28 September 1951
A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.
01 January 1955
"The poet Daisy Aldan (who brought Gerard Malanga into the world of experimental filmmaking) directed a beautifully evocative and impressionistic documentary, Once Upon an El, in 8mm color with a 7 1/2 ips tape soundtrack.
01 November 1946
A soundless mix of story fragments and images. Initially, images of death, a man with a guitar, a soirée.
28 September 1951
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
31 December 1973
In this homage to Zen poet Basho, the subtle changes of a pond are chronicled on film over a period of time.
20 April 1951
'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero’s quest for “playmates” through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes ironically with the images.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
01 January 1976
The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.
01 January 1983
Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
01 January 1975
Celebrating the circulation of the waters of the world, this homage to James Broughton's favorite sage Lao-tsu is illustrated by the dance of sunlight on the sea.
12 August 1977
Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton.
"The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating events on both sides of the glass.
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
31 December 1967
James Broughton's counterculture masterpiece about nudity and a bed.
01 January 1977
Mapping extreme close-ups of Broughton's body, the camera slowly becomes a tool to reveal the erotic beauty of the body and the sensual pleasure in loving oneself.
01 January 1974
"TESTAMENT is James Broughton's exquisite self-portrait. A major figure in avant-garde filmmaking and poetry since the 1940s, Broughton views his life and life's work with irony, charm, humor, and a combination of joyous self-love and gentle self-depreciation.
15 January 1984
Jungle Girl, experimental film master Richard Myers’ intensely personal tribute to Frances Gifford, star of the Republic Pictures serial of the 1940’s, a gentle, dream, memory work of haunting visual beauty.
21 March 1979
This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the line "This is the secret that will not stay hidden.
14 March 1981
An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.
01 January 1981
The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age.
01 January 1988
Broughton reads his poetry over various images.
05 May 1980
A motion portrait of poet James Broughton, by his long time partner and filmmaker Joel Singer. Original music by Lou Harrison.
30 July 1970
A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down.
16 March 1972
The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
01 January 1976
A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment.
