James Broughton Movies

Portraits of some of the gay community's most renowned artists and spiritual leaders, with commentary by noted author and photographer Mark Thompson.

Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton. "The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.