James Broughton Movies

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

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

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...

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero’s quest for “playmates” through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes...

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

Did you know half of the Buddha statues you see in people’s houses or stores were once bids on eBay with $15.36 shipping within the U.S. ? You...

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...

Close-up shots of Broughton's body.

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.

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...

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

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

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

A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment.

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