James Broughton

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1913-11-10

Deathday 1999-05-07 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Modesto, California

James Broughton

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 have learned more about poetry / from music and magic than from literature," he wrote.

Known For

Director

1988
Scattered Remains

as Director

1983
Devotions

as Director

1981
1981
Shaman Psalm

as Director

1979
Hermes Bird

as Director

1977
1977
Windowmobile

as Director

1976
Together

as Director

1976
Erogeny

as Director

1975
The Water Circle

as Director

1974
Testament

as Director

1973
High Kukus

as Director

1972
Dreamwood

as Director

1971
This is It

as Director

1970
1969
Nuptiae

as Director

1967
The Bed

as Director

1953
1951
1951
1948
Mother's Day

as Director

1946
The Potted Psalm

as Director

Writer

1983
Devotions

as Writer

1981
1972
Dreamwood

as Writer

1953
1948
Mother's Day

as Writer

Sound

2024
BUDDHALLAND

as Sound