James Broughton Movies

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

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

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

"The poet Daisy Aldan (who brought Gerard Malanga into the world of experimental filmmaking) directed a beautifully evocative and impressionistic...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.