James Broughton
Birth:
Nov. 10, 1913 (Modesto, California)
Death:
May 17, 1999
Official Website:
None
Major Works:
Scattered Remains (with Joel Singer) (1988)
Devotions (with Joel Singer) (1983)
The Gardener of Eden (with Joel Singer) (1981)
Shaman Psalm (with Joel Singer) (1981)
Hermes Bird (1979)
Song of the Godbody (with Joel Singer) (1977)
Windowmobile (with Joel Singer) (1977)
Erogeny (1976)
Together (with Joel Singer) (1976)
The Water Circle (1975)
Testament (1974)
High Kukus (1973)
Dreamwood (1972)
This Is It (1971)
The Golden Positions (1970)
Nuptiae (1969)
The Bed (1968)
The Pleasure Garden (1953)
Four in the Afternoon (1951)
Loony Tom, The Happy Lover (1951)
Adventures of Jimmy (1950)
Mother’s Day (1948)
The Potted Psalm (with Sidney Peterson) (1946)
Years Working:
1946 — 1948
1950 — 1953
Films Appear On:
Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954 (17 Nov 2009; Kino International)
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 (24 Jul 2007; Kino Video)
The Films of James Broughton (31 Oct 2006; Facets)
Notes:
Was also an accomplished poet.
1989: Recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.
Online Resources:
IMDB: Profile
Wikipedia: Profile (Added: 29 Mar 2005; var. authors)
Bad Lit: Posts (Var. pub. dates; Mike Everleth)
Bright Lights Film Journal: Laughing Pan: James Broughton (Jan 2000; Gary Morris)
WCSU: Biography (publication undetermined; ed. Hugh McCarney)
Writings by James Broughton Online:
Archipelago: Free to Die Laughing (2000)
Film Books About James Broughton:
An Introduction to the American Underground Film by Sheldon Renan (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1967) (Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin and Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver) (p. 88.)
Film Books by James Broughton:
Making Light of It (City Lights Books; 1992)
Video: None
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