James Broughton

Known for DirectingBorn 1913-11-10Died 1999-05-07Modesto, California

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Song of the Godbody

Birth of a Nation

Adventures of Jimmy

Together

The Gardener of Eden

The Pleasure Garden

Scattered Remains

Hermes Bird

Mother's Day

Four in the Afternoon

Testament

High Kukus

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

This is It

The Golden Positions

Erogeny

The Potted Psalm

The Bed

The Water Circle

Cinématon

Devotions

Nuptiae

Loony Tom the Happy Lover

Dreamwood

Fellow Travelers

Jungle Girl

Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton

Shaman Psalm

Poet in Orbit

Windowmobile

Once Upon An El