James Broughton
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 10, 1913
Deathday: May 07, 1999
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High Kukus
1973-12-31
High Kukus
Overview: 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 background.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-31
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Shaman Psalm
1981-01-01
Shaman Psalm
Overview: The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Hermes Bird
1979-03-21
Hermes Bird
Overview: 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 line "This is the secret that will not stay hidden."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-21
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Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
2013-03-09
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Overview: A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960s and '70s to profoundly embrace life and ‘follow your own weird’.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-09
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Song of the Godbody
1977-01-01
Song of the Godbody
Overview: Close-up shots of Broughton's body.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Together
1976-01-01
Together
Overview: A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Adventures of Jimmy
1951-04-20
Adventures of Jimmy
Overview: 'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero’s quest for “playmates” through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes ironically with the images. We are told his family left him their whole estate, as we see a shack in the woods. The happy resolution is a joke on monogamy. It’s a straightforward story, the work of someone who wants to entertain with elegance and quiet subversion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-20
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Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
Birth of a Nation
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-06
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Devotions
1983-01-01
Devotions
Overview: Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Once Upon An El
1955-01-01
Once Upon An El
Overview: "The poet Daisy Aldan (who brought Gerard Malanga into the world of experimental filmmaking) directed a beautifully evocative and impressionistic documentary, Once Upon an El, in 8mm color with a 7 1/2 ips tape soundtrack. The 15-minute film's cast included John Ashberry, James Broughton, Chester Kallman, Frank O'Hara, Olga Petroff, Kermit Sheets, and other luminaries of the Avant-Garde, the soundtrack was composed by Storm de Hirsch. Once Upon An El documented the activities of a group of writers and composers...[demonstrating] against the demolition of New York's Third Avenue elevated railway (FMC 1967, 7-8) , which was demolished anyway" - Wheeler Winston Dixon
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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The Water Circle
1975-01-01
The Water Circle
Overview: 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 sunlight on the sea. Accompanying poem (read and written by James Broughton) was composed to the music of Corelli, from his Concerto Grosso No. 9 in A, performed on the harp by Joel Andrews.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Jungle Girl
1984-01-15
Jungle Girl
Overview: Jungle Girl, experimental film master Richard Myers’ intensely personal tribute to Frances Gifford, star of the Republic Pictures serial of the 1940’s, a gentle, dream, memory work of haunting visual beauty.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-15
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Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton
Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton
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Original Language: fr
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