James Broughton Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

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

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

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

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

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

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