James Broughton Movies

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

Close-up shots of Broughton's body.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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

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

This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.

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

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

The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age.

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

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

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

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...

"TESTAMENT is James Broughton's exquisite self-portrait. A major figure in avant-garde filmmaking and poetry since the 1940s, Broughton views his...

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

"The poet Daisy Aldan (who brought Gerard Malanga into the world of experimental filmmaking) directed a beautifully evocative and impressionistic...

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.

Celebrating the circulation of the waters of the world, this homage to James Broughton's favorite sage Lao-tsu is illustrated by the dance of...