The Pleasure Garden
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills...
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Did you know half of the Buddha statues you see in people’s houses or stores were once bids on eBay with $15.36 shipping within the U.S. ? You...
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Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
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This film celebrates weddings and being wed, and the union of opposites in everything everywhere.
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James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a...
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Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult...
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An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.
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A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.
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A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down.
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Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
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James Broughton's counterculture masterpiece about nudity and a bed.
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This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the...
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Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
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The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.
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A soundless mix of story fragments and images. Initially, images of death, a man with a guitar, a soirée. Some images are surreal: an older woman...
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In this homage to Zen poet Basho, the subtle changes of a pond are chronicled on film over a period of time. Broughton recites his cuckoo haikus in...
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Close-up shots of Broughton's body.
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Celebrating the circulation of the waters of the world, this homage to James Broughton's favorite sage Lao-tsu is illustrated by the dance of...
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Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton. "The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating...
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A single-frame portrait of Broughton's disembodied heads coming slowly together in wiggle, wobble and wonderment.
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