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James Broughton (1913-1999)

Birthplace:
Modesto, California

Born:
November 10, 1913

Died:
May 7, 1999

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Director:
1946  The Potted Psalm
1948  Mother's Day
1951  Adventures of Jimmy
1951  Four in the Afternoon
1951  Loony Tom the Happy Lover
1953  The Pleasure Garden
1967  The Bed
1969  Nuptiae
1970  The Golden Positions
1971  This is It
1972  Dreamwood
1973  High Kukus
1974  Testament
1975  The Water Circle
1976  Erogeny
1976  Together
1977  Song of the Godbody
1977  Windowmobile
1979  Hermes Bird
1981  Shaman Psalm
1981  The Gardener of Eden
1983  Devotions
1988  Scattered Remains

Writer:
1946  The Potted Psalm
1948  Mother's Day
1951  Adventures of Jimmy
1951  Four in the Afternoon
1951  Loony Tom the Happy Lover
1953  The Pleasure Garden
1967  The Bed
1969  Nuptiae
1970  The Golden Positions
1971  This is It
1972  Dreamwood
1973  High Kukus
1974  Testament
1975  The Water Circle
1976  Erogeny
1976  Together
1977  Song of the Godbody
1977  Windowmobile
1979  Hermes Bird
1981  Shaman Psalm
1981  The Gardener of Eden
1983  Devotions
1988  Scattered Remains

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