James Broughton Movies

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

Portraits of some of the gay community's most renowned artists and spiritual leaders, with commentary by noted author and photographer Mark Thompson.

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

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

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

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...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

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

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

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...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

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

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

Jungle Girl, experimental film master Richard Myers’ intensely personal tribute to Frances Gifford, star of the Republic Pictures serial of the...

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

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.

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

A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down.