James Broughton Movies

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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