James Broughton Movies

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...

The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.

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

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult...

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

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

A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down.

A motion portrait of poet James Broughton, by his long time partner and filmmaker Joel Singer. Original music by Lou Harrison.

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

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...

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...

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