James Broughton Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Close-up shots of Broughton's body.

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

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

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...

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