James Broughton Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...