James Broughton
Directing
November 10, 1913
Died May 7, 1999 (85 years old)
Modesto, California
19
Acting Credits
23
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
2013
as Self
5.3
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself (archive footage)
6.8
Fellow Travelers
2008
as Self (archive)
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
7
Scattered Remains
1988
6
Jungle Girl
1984
Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton
1984
Devotions
1983
4.8
Shaman Psalm
1981
Poet in Orbit
1980
Hermes Bird
1979
as Narration
6
Cinématon
1978
as N°409
4.9
Song of the Godbody
1977
7.5
Together
1976
4.5
The Water Circle
1975
4.9
Testament
1974
as Self
5.8
High Kukus
1973
5.2
Once Upon An El
1955
Adventures of Jimmy
1951
7