Director

James Broughton

November 10, 1913 · Modesto, 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.

Often works with

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Anna Halprin
2 titles together
Four in the Afternoon, The Golden Positions

Full filmography · 24

Scattered Remains
cast and Director
1988
Jungle Girl
cast
1984
Devotions
cast and Director and Writer
1983
The Gardener of Eden
Director and Writer
1981
Shaman Psalm
cast and Director
1981
Poet in Orbit
cast
1980
Hermes Bird
as Narration and Director
1979
Cinématon
as N°409
1978
Windowmobile
Director
1977
Erogeny
Director
1976
Together
cast and Director
1976
The Water Circle
cast and Director
1975