James Broughton

BUDDHALLAND (2024)

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Scattered Remains (1988)

Broughton reads his poetry over various images. ...

Devotions (1983)

Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together. ...

The Gardener of Eden (1981)

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden. ...

Shaman Psalm (1981)

The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age. ...

Hermes Bird (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. ...

Windowmobile (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. Broughton's accompanying poem sings the same song as the images, sounding fr ...

Song of the Godbody (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. The ecstasy and power of sexual gratification are celebrated by the camera, as it probes, re ...

Together (1976)

A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment. ...

Erogeny (1976)

The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another. ...

The Water Circle (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. Accompanying poem (read and written by James Broughton) was composed to the music of Corelli ...

Testament (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-depreciat ...

High Kukus (1973)

In this homage to Zen poet Basho, the subtle changes of a pond are chronicled on film over a period of time. Broughton recites his cuckoo haikus in the background. ...

Dreamwood (1972)

The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious. ...

This is It (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. And since that miracle is what his film is about, he achieves a kind of casual per ...

The Golden Positions (1970)

A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down. ...

Nuptiae (1969)

This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere. ...

The Bed (1967)

James Broughton's counterculture masterpiece about nudity and a bed. ...

The Pleasure Garden (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. ...

Four in the Afternoon (1951)

Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch. ...

Loony Tom the Happy Lover (1951)

A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role. ...

Adventures of Jimmy (1951)

'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero's quest for "playmates" through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes ironically with the images. We are told his family left him their whole estate, as we see a shack in the woods. The happy resolutio ...

Mother's Day (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. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism pla ...

The Potted Psalm (1946)

A soundless mix of story fragments and images. Initially, images of death, a man with a guitar, a soirée. Some images are surreal: an older woman eats a leaf; a headless man pours a cocktail into his body. ...

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (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 19 ...

Birth of a Nation (1997)

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own "nation of cinema," a vital ...

Scattered Remains (1988)

Broughton reads his poetry over various images. ...

Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton (1984)

Jungle Girl (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. ...

Devotions (1983)

Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together. ...

Shaman Psalm (1981)

The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age. ...

Hermes Bird (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. ...

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...

Song of the Godbody (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. The ecstasy and power of sexual gratification are celebrated by the camera, as it probes, re ...

Together (1976)

A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment. ...

The Water Circle (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. Accompanying poem (read and written by James Broughton) was composed to the music of Corelli ...

Testament (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-depreciat ...

High Kukus (1973)

In this homage to Zen poet Basho, the subtle changes of a pond are chronicled on film over a period of time. Broughton recites his cuckoo haikus in the background. ...

Once Upon An El (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. The 15-minute film's cast include ...

Adventures of Jimmy (1951)

'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero's quest for "playmates" through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes ironically with the images. We are told his family left him their whole estate, as we see a shack in the woods. The happy resolutio ...