James Broughton Movies
- 1997

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....
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- 1969

Nuptiae
Nuptiae4.61969HD
This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.
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- 2013

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton4.8332013HD
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...
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- 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...
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- 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....
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- 1977

Windowmobile
Windowmobile01977HD
Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton. "The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating...
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- 1984

Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton
Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton01984HD
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- 1970

The Golden Positions
The Golden Positions4.71970HD
A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down.
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- 1983

Devotions
Devotions31983HD
Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 1981

Shaman Psalm
Shaman Psalm01981HD
The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age.
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- 1951

Four in the Afternoon
Four in the Afternoon5.81951HD
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
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- 1974

Testament
Testament5.21974HD
"TESTAMENT is James Broughton's exquisite self-portrait. A major figure in avant-garde filmmaking and poetry since the 1940s, Broughton views his...
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- 1955

Once Upon An El
Once Upon An El01955HD
"The poet Daisy Aldan (who brought Gerard Malanga into the world of experimental filmmaking) directed a beautifully evocative and impressionistic...
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- 1976

Together
Together01976HD
A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment.
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- 1972

Dreamwood
Dreamwood41972HD
The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
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- 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...
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- 1976

Erogeny
Erogeny4.5451976HD
The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.
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- 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...
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