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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

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

"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.

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

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...

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