Director
James Broughton
112 years · Modesto, California · 29 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 29
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
2013 · Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Himself (archive footage)
On Kanopy
Fellow Travelers
2008 · Self (archive)
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Scattered Remains
1988 · Actor, Director
Jungle Girl
1984 · Actor
Devotions
1983 · Actor, Director
The Gardener of Eden
1981 · Director, Writer
Shaman Psalm
1981 · Actor, Director
Poet in Orbit
1980 · Actor
Hermes Bird
1979 · Narration, Director
Cinématon
1978 · N°409
Windowmobile
1977 · Director
Song of the Godbody
1977 · Actor, Director
Erogeny
1976 · Director
The Water Circle
1975 · Actor, Director
Testament
1974 · Self, Director
High Kukus
1973 · Actor, Director
Dreamwood
1972 · Director, Writer
This is It
1971 · Director
The Golden Positions
1970 · Director
The Bed
1967 · Director
Once Upon An El
1955 · Actor
The Pleasure Garden
1953 · Director, Writer