James Broughton Movies

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...

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...

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

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

Mapping extreme close-ups of Broughton's body, the camera slowly becomes a tool to reveal the erotic beauty of the body and the sensual pleasure in...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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