James Broughton Movies

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

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

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

"TESTAMENT is James Broughton's exquisite self-portrait. A major figure in avant-garde filmmaking and poetry since the 1940s, Broughton views his...

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

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

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

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

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

A motion portrait of poet James Broughton, by his long time partner and filmmaker Joel Singer. Original music by Lou Harrison.

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...

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...

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