James Broughton Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.31978HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

    Cinématon
  • 1953
    The Pleasure Garden

    The Pleasure Garden

    The Pleasure Garden

    61953HD

    People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting...

    The Pleasure Garden
  • 1946
    The Potted Psalm

    The Potted Psalm

    The Potted Psalm

    5.11946HD

    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...

    The Potted Psalm
  • 2013
    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    5.62013HD

    A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
  • 1975
    The Water Circle

    The Water Circle

    The Water Circle

    4.91975HD

    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...

    The Water Circle
  • 1981
    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    51981HD

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

    The Gardener of Eden
  • 1948
    Mother's Day

    Mother's Day

    Mother's Day

    61948HD

    Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult...

    Mother's Day
  • 1951
    Loony Tom the Happy Lover

    Loony Tom the Happy Lover

    Loony Tom the Happy Lover

    4.51951HD

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

    Loony Tom the Happy Lover
  • 1951
    Four in the Afternoon

    Four in the Afternoon

    Four in the Afternoon

    5.71951HD

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

    Four in the Afternoon
  • 1977
    Song of the Godbody

    Song of the Godbody

    Song of the Godbody

    71977HD

    Close-up shots of Broughton's body.

    Song of the Godbody
  • 1972
    Dreamwood

    Dreamwood

    Dreamwood

    4.21972HD

    Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.

    Dreamwood
  • 1951
    Adventures of Jimmy

    Adventures of Jimmy

    Adventures of Jimmy

    71951HD

    'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero’s quest for “playmates” through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes...

    Adventures of Jimmy
  • 1967
    The Bed

    The Bed

    The Bed

    4.91967HD

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

    The Bed
  • 1973
    High Kukus

    High Kukus

    High Kukus

    5.31973HD

    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...

    High Kukus
  • 1971
    This is It

    This is It

    This is It

    4.91971HD

    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...

    This is It
  • 1969
    Nuptiae

    Nuptiae

    Nuptiae

    4.61969HD

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

    Nuptiae
  • 1979
    Hermes Bird

    Hermes Bird

    Hermes Bird

    51979HD

    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...

    Hermes Bird
  • 1976
    Erogeny

    Erogeny

    Erogeny

    4.81976HD

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

    Erogeny
  • 1977
    Windowmobile

    Windowmobile

    Windowmobile

    01977HD

    Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton. "The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating...

    Windowmobile