James Broughton
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 10, 1913, Modesto, California
- Died
- May 7, 1999
- Movies
- 43
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2013 | Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton | Self |
| 2011 | Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film | Himself (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Fellow Travelers | Self (archive) |
| 1997 | Birth of a Nation | Self |
| 1988 | Scattered Remains | |
| 1984 | Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton | |
| 1984 | Jungle Girl | |
| 1983 | Devotions | |
| 1981 | Shaman Psalm | |
| 1980 | Poet in Orbit | |
| 1979 | Hermes Bird | Narration |
| 1979 | James | |
| 1978 | Cinématon | N°409 |
| 1977 | Song of the Godbody | |
| 1976 | Together | |
| 1975 | The Water Circle | |
| 1974 | Testament | Self |
| 1973 | High Kukus | |
| 1955 | Once Upon An El | |
| 1951 | Adventures of Jimmy |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1988 | Scattered Remains | Director |
| 1983 | Devotions | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | The Gardener of Eden | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | Shaman Psalm | Director |
| 1979 | Hermes Bird | Director |
| 1977 | Windowmobile | Director |
| 1977 | Song of the Godbody | Director |
| 1976 | Together | Director |
| 1976 | Erogeny | Director |
| 1975 | The Water Circle | Director |
| 1974 | Testament | Director |
| 1973 | High Kukus | Director |
| 1972 | Dreamwood | Director, Writer |
| 1971 | This is It | Director |
| 1970 | The Golden Positions | Director |
| 1969 | Nuptiae | Director |
| 1967 | The Bed | Director |
| 1953 | The Pleasure Garden | Director, Writer |
| 1951 | Four in the Afternoon | Director |
| 1951 | Loony Tom the Happy Lover | Director |
| 1951 | Adventures of Jimmy | Director |
| 1948 | Mother's Day | Director, Writer |
| 1946 | The Potted Psalm | Director |
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