James Broughton
November 10, 1913 (111 years old) in Modesto, California
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
Credits
- 2013 · Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton as Self
- 1997 · Birth of a Nation as Self
- 1984 · Jungle Girl as
- 1983 · Devotions as
- 1981 · Shaman Psalm as
- 1979 · Hermes Bird as Narration
- 1978 · Cinématon as N°409
- 1977 · Song of the Godbody as
- 1976 · Together as
- 1975 · The Water Circle as
- 1973 · High Kukus as
- 1955 · Once Upon An El as
- 1951 · Adventures of Jimmy as
- Future · Cinématon n°409 : James Broughton as