James Broughton

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James Broughton

Directing November 10, 1913

Modesto, California

James Broughton was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries…

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High Kukus

High Kukus

5.2 1973 Movie
The Bed

The Bed

5.1 1967 Movie
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

6.8 2011 Movie
The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden

6.5 1953 Movie
This is It

This is It

4.8 1971 Movie
Mother's Day

Mother's Day

6.1 1948 Movie
The Potted Psalm

The Potted Psalm

5.3 1946 Movie
Four in the Afternoon

Four in the Afternoon

6.1 1951 Movie
Dreamwood

Dreamwood

4.2 1972 Movie
Erogeny

Erogeny

4.9 1976 Movie
Scattered Remains

Scattered Remains

6.0 1988 Movie
Loony Tom the Happy Lover

Loony Tom the Happy Lover

4.8 1951 Movie

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James Broughton was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries as well as a member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, serving the community as Sister Sermonetta. His work is quintessentially Californian – exploring and engaging the polar frontiers of wildness and civility, male and female, body and spirit—with the crash of Pacific Ocean waves echoing throughout. "Ultimately I have learned more about poetry / from music and magic than from literature," he wrote.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2013
    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Movie Self

  2. 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Movie Himself (archive footage)

  3. 2008
    Fellow Travelers

    Movie Self (archive)

  4. 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Movie Self

  5. 1988
    Scattered Remains

    Movie

  6. 1984
    Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton

    Movie

  7. 1984
    Jungle Girl

    Movie

  8. 1983
    Devotions

    Movie

  9. 1981
    The Gardener of Eden

    Movie Director

  10. 1981
    Shaman Psalm

    Movie

  11. 1980
    Poet in Orbit

    Movie

  12. 1979
    Hermes Bird

    Movie Narration

  13. 1978
    Cinématon

    Movie N°409

  14. 1977
    Windowmobile

    Movie Director

  15. 1977
    Song of the Godbody

    Movie

  16. 1976
    Erogeny

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 1976
    Together

    Movie

  2. 1975
    The Water Circle

    Movie

  3. 1974
    Testament

    Movie Self

  4. 1973
    High Kukus

    Movie

  5. 1972
    Dreamwood

    Movie Director

  6. 1971
    This is It

    Movie Director

  7. 1970
    The Golden Positions

    Movie Director

  8. 1969
    Nuptiae

    Movie Director

  9. 1967
    The Bed

    Movie Director

  10. 1955
    Once Upon An El

    Movie

  11. 1953
    The Pleasure Garden

    Movie Director

  12. 1951
    Four in the Afternoon

    Movie Director

  13. 1951
    Loony Tom the Happy Lover

    Movie Director

  14. 1951
    Adventures of Jimmy

    Movie

  15. 1948
    Mother's Day

    Movie Director

  16. 1946
    The Potted Psalm

    Movie Director