Every movement has its muses. James Broughton probably would have copped to being a muse, or perhaps more accurately, a smiling spirit guide to pleasurable realms beyond the norm. It's less likely he would have considered himself a leader of any movement. That in spite of the fact that by all accounts the West Coast experimental film scene was mostly his creation with two short films, The Potted Psalm (1946) and Mother's Day (1948). Broughton is simply too individual for categorization, even when the evidence for labeling him this or that is overwhelming. But the lure of labels is too strong, so for the sake of shorthand, and with apologies to Broughton, let's call him poet, avant-garde film artist, and Dionysian gay sage.
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Volumen 1
Mother's day (James Broughton, 1948)
337 MB 22:02 min.
One of the first major works of the San Francisco film movement, MOTHER'S DAY is a painfully humorous recollection of childhood in which a family of singular adults recreate their infancy by behaving as they did when growing up.
"Humorous, satirical, and overwhelmingly skillful, this ironic camera exploration of the artist's world of memory, imagination and perception is among the finest, most challenging films yet produced in this country." - Arthur Knight
"MOTHER'S DAY for me is one of the great films in film history." - Peter Kubelka
Awards: Belgium, 1949; Venice, 1952.
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Loony Tom (James Broughton, 1951)
158 MB 10:23 min.
"This little slapstick comedy pictures the amorous progress of a prancing, baggy-trousered, bowler-hatted, demented and blissfully happy tramp who capers across a sunlit countryside making love to every woman he encounters. Half Rabelais, half Mack Sennet, LOONY TOM owes a great deal to the spirited miming of Kermit Sheets as the Happy Lover." - Paul Dehn, London Times
Awards: Edinburgh Film Festival; Venice Film Festival; Oberhausen Film Festival.
Loony Tom (James Broughton, 1951).avi Four in the afternoon (James Broughton, 1951)
222 MB 14:38 min
Four poetic variations on the search for love; four odd characters living out their daydreams: Game Little Gladys, The Gardener's Son, Princess Printemps, and The Aging Balletomane. Based on Broughton's own poems, this film blends image, music and verse in moods from the farcical to the elegaic.
"Lovely and delicious, true cinematic poetry." - Dylan Thomas
"The best film poetry ever made." - Willard Maas
Four in the afternoon (James Broughton, 1951).avi The pleasure garden (James Broughton, 1953)
579 MB 37:52 min.
A joyous musical fantasy celebrating Love in the Park and the victory of the pleasure principle over all prudes and killjoys. THE PLEASURE GARDEN was made in London with a professional cast and shot in the ruined gardens of the Crystal Palace.
"In Chaplin, Rene Clair, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati we enjoy on a big scale the fruits of the poetic turned comic. Broughton is of their kind, except that he holds more strongly to feeling, makes short cuts they daren't, sees and sings out of himself, and never dilutes a joke or a movement. THE PLEASURE GARDEN thus combines the pleasure of Keystone with the love lyric. It springs like the lark, and mingles oddity, grace, satire, and laughter without a dead moment." - Sight and Sound
"It's on the side of the angels. It's a great testimony for Love." - Allen Ginsberg
Awards: Edinburgh Film Festival, 1953; Cannes Film Festival, 1954.
The pleasure garden (James Broughton, 1953).avi Volumen 2
The Bed (1968)
291 MB - 19:05 min.
"One of the most lyrically erotic of independent films, THE BED is a merry allegory which celebrates impudently and imaginatively just about everything that could happen in bed (and some things that couldn't) - birth, young love, loneliness, dreams and death, amid all sorts of hanky-panky from fetishism to plain old lechery." - LA Free Press
"Broughton's finest film by far. It exists in a state of play fully realized." - Stan Brakhage
Awards: Oberhausen Film Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Yale Film Festival; Foothill College Film Festival.
The bed (James Broughton, 1968).avi The Golden Positions
343 MB - 31:35 min
"A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down." - John Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle
"James Broughton adroitly blends anatomical tableaus and pantomime, simulating everything from sexual harmony to plain everyday desk slump. The cast parades around in jaybird comfort. The picture is funny and ever so wise." - Howard Thompson, The New York Times
"A superb control of the cinema medium with a visual richness and an elegance approached by no other film viewed by the judges." - Bruce Conner, Maurice Girodias, Arthur Knight, First Erotic Film Festival
"THE GOLDEN POSITIONS is a rich, warm, clear statement of humanism. There is no angst, no fragmentation, no overt experimentation. It stands apart from most of the films of the past two decades by its feeling of certainty, positiveness, and completeness. And, most importantly, THE GOLDEN POSITIONS gives us a deep and restful pleasure in the viewing." - Sheldon Renan
Awards: Grand Prize, Bellevue Film Festival, 1970; First Prize, First Int'l Erotic Film Festival, 1970
The golden positions (James Broughton, 1970).avi This Is It
138 MB - 9:04 min.
"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 miracle of the ordinary. And since that miracle is what his film is about, he achieves a kind of casual perfection in matching means and ends." - Robert Greenspun, The New York Times
"It's simple, inspired, and ecstatic. To watch Broughton's film you need a certain silence, a certain descending to the more subtle, more fragile levels of your being - otherwise, the film and its content will not reach you, it will break to pieces. I figure this is the main reason why films of the stature and subtlety and ecstasy of THIS IS IT never reach the New York Film Festival screen." - Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice
"A seminal film that promises to affect the course of film art for some time to come." - Hollis Frampton
Awards: First Prize, Yale Film Festival, 1972; First Prize, Hawaii Int'l Film Festival, 1972; First Prize, Sinking Creek Film & Video Festival, 1972; First Prize, Kenyon Film Festival, 1972.
This is it (James Broughton, 1971).avi Dreamwood
679 MB - 44:26 min.
"DREAMWOOD is James Broughton's major work to date. It is a modern day spiritual odyssey in which a man is mysteriously compelled to leave his home and embark on a voyage to a strange and magical island. On the island he faces the most improbable and intense experiences of his life, ranging from total humiliation to a deep sense of oneness with the forces of life. Heroic in concept, subtle in execution, DREAMWOOD is a beautiful film by a true master of the medium." - David Bienstock
"DREAMWOOD is Broughton's finest film." - Jerome Hill
"No single film in the whole of the American avant-garde comes as close as this one to the source of the trance film, Cocteau's Blood of a Poet." - P. Adams Sitney
Awards: First Prize, Independent Filmmakers Festival, 1972; Foothill College Film Festival, 1972.
Dreamwood (James Broughton, 1972).avi High Kukus
49 MB - 3:18 min.
"A visualization of the Zen dictum of 'sitting quietly, doing nothing,' HIGH KUKUS uses a single beautiful visual image while it delights with a poetic soundtrack composed of 14 gems of Broughton's wit and wonder." - Freude Bartlett
"A High Kuku is, of course, a cuckoo haiku. In inventing this form James Broughton has concocted zany verses which are 'high' in the sense that they are often metaphysical and are keenly aware of the metacomedy of things.... In the contemplation of lofty themes most people are serious, though not always sincere. Broughton, however, is always sincere but hardly ever serious. Indeed, seriousness is a questionable virtue; it is gravity rather than levity, and it was that devout Catholic, G.K. Chesterton, who maintained that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly. And, in company with the angels, Broughton laughs with God rather than at him." - Alan Watts
Award: First Prize, Bolinas Poetry Film Festival, 1975
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301 MB - 19:47 min.
"TESTAMENT is James Broughton's exquisite self-portrait. A major figure in avant-garde filmmaking and poetry since the 1940s, Broughton views his life and life's work with irony, charm, humor, and a combination of joyous self-love and gentle self-depreciation. Scenes from his earlier films mix the elements of humor, magic, slapstick, melodrama, and romance which mark his aesthetic. A plethora of rich personal symbols is woven throughout the film, tied together by verbal games, Zen poems, anecdotes, songs, a child's prayer, dreams, and visions." - Karen Cooper
"James Broughton's TESTAMENT is one of the most remarkable films ever produced within the American independent cinema. It is the most moving and most sublimely detached of the recent trend of filmic autobiographies - by Jerome Hill, Jonas Mekas, and Stan Brakhage, to name only the masters, and Broughton's peers." - P. Adams Sitney
"A beautiful, important, mysterious work." - Amos Vogel
Testament (James Broughton, 1974).avi The Water Circle
47 MB - 3:07 min.
An homage to Lao-Tzu, this is a rollicking joyful poem that celebrates the movement of the waterways of the world, set to music by Corelli and read by the poet. The image is a continuous flow of light on water.
"Exhilarating! It is Taoism alive." - Al Chung-liang Huang
The water circle (James Broughton, 1975).avi Erogeny
82 MB - 5:21 min.
The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another. It is like an expedition into human geography, an intimate sculpture, an erogenous healing ceremony, and an ode to the pleasures of touch. Also it is an homage to old friends, Willard Maas and Marie Menken, who made the first body poem in cinema history, Geography of the Body, in 1943.
Awards: Bellevue Film Festival, 1976; NY Film Exposition, 1977; American Film/Video Festival, 1977.
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Volumen 3
Song of the Godbody (1977)
"The film consists predominantly of extreme close-ups of parts of Broughton's body. The camera slowly becomes the tool revealing the erotic beauty of the body and the sensual pleasure in loving oneself. The ecstasy and power of sexual gratification are celebrated by the camera, as it maintains an erotic role, probing, revealing and visually caressing. Broughton's song is a praise of his body as divine androgyne, and an acceptance of this higher godly sexual power." - Richard Bartone, Millennium Film Journal
Songs of the godbody (James Broughton & Joel Singer, 1977).avi Hermes Bird (1979
"This is the secret that will not stay hidden/this secret that is no secret / Here is the wonder of the god in man / Here is the dangling flower of Eros."
So begins the poetry sequence on the soundtrack of this very intimate film.
HERMES BIRD is a celebration and an apotheosis of the masculine miracle: the transformative powers of the phallus, revealed as a phenomenon of glowing beauty and wonder.
Because the film occurs in extreme slow motion one has the opportunity to witness for the first time in cinema the delicate pulsations and tremors and changes of the penis as it grows erect, until at last, reaching outward and upward, it takes flight toward its climax. The filmmaker-poet has written a group of lyrical poems for the sound of the film. They are spoken by the poet, and they sing praises for the radiant masculine mystery of the "sacred firebird," the "holy acrobat shaped for surprise" which is every man's pride and, hopefully, his joy.
Hermes bird (James Broughton & Joel Singer, 1979).avi The Gardener of Eden (1981)
Filmed on the paradise island of Sri Lanka, this intense poetic work celebrates the eternal dance of nature's sexuality, and sings of the lost Eden we all search for but do not expect to find.
In the midst of his fertile garden, while he awaits Adam's return, God tries to keep his eye on all the flowering exuberance he has seeded. The film is written and narrated by James Broughton, and photographed by Joel Singer. The music is performed on twin conch shells, and the central actor is in real life the most famous horticulturalist in Ceylon.
"... the meshing of ancient philosophy and modern technology in a song of the mysteries of protoplasm!" - Lenore Rinder
"An ecstatic masterpiece!" - Stan Brakhage
Awards: Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1981; SF Int'l Film Festival, 1981; Baltimore Film Festival, 1981.
The gardener of Eden (James Broughton & Joel Singer, 1981).avi Devotions (1983)
The music, scored for flutes and gamelan, was especially composed by Lou Harrison. DEVOTIONS is the vision of a world where men have forsaken rivalry and taken up affection, thereby creating a society that relishes a variety of comradely devotions.
The film takes delight in observing the friendly things men can do together, from the odd to the rapturous, from the playful to the passionate. These events appear in a series of cameo duets performed by men of all ages and appetites.
The tapestry of changing scenes is strung on a narrative thread: the personal romance of the two makers of the film, as they discover their own affections and interweave them with those of their friends. In the end they assert their hope that loving comradeship may yet be the happy norm for the world.
The film was made over a nine month period on locations from Seattle to San Diego, and included the participation of some forty-five couples.
Devotions (James Broughton & Joel Singer, 1983).avi Scattered Remains (1988)
Images, Joel Singer; Poetry, James Broughton; Music, Lou Harrison.
This is a cinematic performance piece enlivened by its experiments in poetic speech and poetic vision. Joel Singer creates a multi-faceted portrait of poet James Broughton acting out his verses in unlikely situations and surprising camera inventions. In the course of this divertissement the poet probes the puzzlements of mortality, destiny and the magic of language.
"A true wonderpiece and remarkable portrait." - Michael McClure
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