James Broughton Movies
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 1953
The Pleasure Garden
The Pleasure Garden61953HD
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting...
- 1946
The Potted Psalm
The Potted Psalm5.11946HD
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...
- 2013
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton5.62013HD
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...
- 1975
The Water Circle
The Water Circle4.91975HD
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...
- 1981
The Gardener of Eden
The Gardener of Eden51981HD
An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.
- 1948
Mother's Day
Mother's Day61948HD
Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult...
- 1951
Loony Tom the Happy Lover
Loony Tom the Happy Lover4.51951HD
A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.
- 1951
Four in the Afternoon
Four in the Afternoon5.71951HD
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
- 1977
Song of the Godbody
Song of the Godbody71977HD
Close-up shots of Broughton's body.
- 1972
Dreamwood
Dreamwood4.21972HD
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
- 1951
Adventures of Jimmy
Adventures of Jimmy71951HD
'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero’s quest for “playmates” through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes...
- 1967
The Bed
The Bed4.91967HD
James Broughton's counterculture masterpiece about nudity and a bed.
- 1973
High Kukus
High Kukus5.31973HD
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...
- 1971
This is It
This is It4.91971HD
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...
- 1969
Nuptiae
Nuptiae4.61969HD
This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.
- 1979
Hermes Bird
Hermes Bird51979HD
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...
- 1976
Erogeny
Erogeny4.81976HD
The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.
- 1977
Windowmobile
Windowmobile01977HD
Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton. "The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating...