James Broughton was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries as well as a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, serving the community as Sister Sermonetta. His work is quintessentially Californian – exploring and engaging the polar frontiers of wildness and civility, male and female, body and spirit—with the crash of Pacific Ocean waves echoing throughout. "Ultimately I have learned more about poetry / from music and magic than from literature," he wrote.
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A soundless mix of story fragments and images. Initially, images of death, a man with a guitar, a so...
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Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past ...
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Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketc...
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A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role....
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People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a purita...
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A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down....
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James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon...
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In this homage to Zen poet Basho, the subtle changes of a pond are chronicled on film over a period ...
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# | Name | Character | Rating | |
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1 | Testament (1974) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
2 | High Kukus (1973) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
3 | Dreamwood (1972) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
4 | This is It (1971) | Director / Writer | 1 | |
5 | The Golden Positions (1970) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
6 | Nuptiae (1969) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
7 | The Bed (1967) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
8 | The Pleasure Garden (1953) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
9 | Four in the Afternoon (1951) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
10 | Loony Tom the Happy Lover (1951) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
11 | Mother's Day (1948) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
12 | The Potted Psalm (1946) | Director / Writer | 5 |