James Broughton
- Directing
- November 10, 1913 · Modesto, California
- May 7, 1999
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton · Self
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film · Self
- Fellow Travelers · Self
- Birth of a Nation · Self
- Scattered Remains · Director
- Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton
- Jungle Girl
- Devotions · Director, Writer
- The Gardener of Eden · Director, Writer
- Shaman Psalm · Director
- Poet in Orbit
- Hermes Bird · Narration, Director
- James
- Cinématon · N°409
- Windowmobile · Director
- Song of the Godbody · Director
- Together · Director
- Erogeny · Director
- The Water Circle · Director
- Testament · Self, Director
- High Kukus · Director
- Dreamwood · Director, Writer
- This is It · Director
- The Golden Positions · Director
- Nuptiae · Director
- The Bed · Director
- Once Upon An El
- The Pleasure Garden · Director, Writer
- Four in the Afternoon · Director
- Loony Tom the Happy Lover · Director
- Adventures of Jimmy · Director
- Mother's Day · Director, Writer
- The Potted Psalm · Director