
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.

Cinématon
MOVIE • 1978

Birth of a Nation
MOVIE • 1997

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
MOVIE • 2013

Scattered Remains
MOVIE • 1988

Once Upon An El
MOVIE • 1955

The Water Circle
MOVIE • 1975

Hermes Bird
MOVIE • 1979

Testament
MOVIE • 1974

Devotions
MOVIE • 1983

Jungle Girl
MOVIE • 1984

Poet in Orbit
MOVIE • 1980

Adventures of Jimmy
MOVIE • 1951

Shaman Psalm
MOVIE • 1981

High Kukus
MOVIE • 1973

Song of the Godbody
MOVIE • 1977