Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 10, 1913
Died
May 07, 1999
Place of Birth
Modesto, California
Credits
33 titles
James Broughton
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
Himself (archive footage)
Fellow Travelers
Self (archive)
Birth of a Nation
Self
Scattered Remains
Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton
Jungle Girl
Devotions
The Gardener of Eden
Director
Shaman Psalm
Poet in Orbit
Hermes Bird
Narration
James
Cinématon
N°409
Windowmobile
Director
Song of the Godbody
Together
Erogeny
Director
The Water Circle
Testament
Self
High Kukus
Dreamwood
Director
This is It
Director
The Golden Positions
Director
Nuptiae
Director
The Bed
Director
Once Upon An El
The Pleasure Garden
Director
Four in the Afternoon
Director
Loony Tom the Happy Lover
Director
Adventures of Jimmy
Mother's Day
Director
The Potted Psalm
Director