Person
James Broughton
Directing · 1913–1999 · Modesto, California
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
Fellow Travelers
Self (archive)
Cinématon
N°409
The Pleasure Garden
Director
Dreamwood
Director
The Bed
Director
Birth of a Nation
Self
Erogeny
Director
Jungle Girl
1984
Scattered Remains
1988
Hermes Bird
Narration
Filmography
- 2013Big Joy: The Adventures of James BroughtonSelf
- 2008Fellow TravelersSelf (archive)
- 1997Birth of a NationSelf
- 1988Scattered Remains
- 1984Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton
- 1984Jungle Girl
- 1983Devotions
- 1981The Gardener of EdenDirector
- 1981Shaman Psalm
- 1980Poet in Orbit
- 1979Hermes BirdNarration
- 1978CinématonN°409
- 1977WindowmobileDirector
- 1977Song of the Godbody
- 1976Together
- 1976ErogenyDirector
- 1975The Water Circle
- 1974TestamentSelf
- 1973High Kukus
- 1972DreamwoodDirector
- 1971This is ItDirector
- 1970The Golden PositionsDirector
- 1969NuptiaeDirector
- 1967The BedDirector
- 1955Once Upon An El
- 1953The Pleasure GardenDirector
- 1951Four in the AfternoonDirector
- 1951Loony Tom the Happy LoverDirector
- 1951Adventures of Jimmy
- 1948Mother's DayDirector
- 1946The Potted PsalmDirector
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