Joel Singer Movies

  • 2013
    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

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    A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual...

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
  • 1981
    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    51981HD

    An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

    The Gardener of Eden
  • 1976
    Glyphs I

    Glyphs I

    Glyphs I

    01976HD

    My 10 minute silent b/w film made in 1975/76. Includes the first footage I ever shot of James Broughton (before he grew a beard).

    Glyphs I
  • 1977
    Song of the Godbody

    Song of the Godbody

    Song of the Godbody

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    Close-up shots of Broughton's body.

    Song of the Godbody
  • 1977
    Windowmobile

    Windowmobile

    Windowmobile

    01977HD

    Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton. "The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating...

    Windowmobile
  • 1983
    Devotions

    Devotions

    Devotions

    3.51983HD

    Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.

    Devotions
  • 1974
    Breakdown

    Breakdown

    Breakdown

    01974HD

    A 360 degree pan breaks down as the narrator's memories of the house in which she sits by the fireplace breaks down.

    Breakdown
  • 1988
    Scattered Remains

    Scattered Remains

    Scattered Remains

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    Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

    Scattered Remains
  • 1981
    Fractive Clusters

    Fractive Clusters

    Fractive Clusters

    01981HD

    Contemplative images of rivers, snow, waterfall, mountain and bodies.

    Fractive Clusters
  • 1977
    Glyphs II

    Glyphs II

    Glyphs II

    01977HD

    17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977

    Glyphs II
  • 2010
    Liberty

    Liberty

    Liberty

    02010HD

    “I left the city in 2009. A year later, I returned for a few months and took the ferry out to see Ms. Liberty close up for the first time. On...

    Liberty
  • 1976
    Perisphere

    Perisphere

    Perisphere

    01976HD

    A traffic circle (in North Berkeley). The forcefield around the centre. Single-framed over the course of about 9 months.

    Perisphere
  • 1977
    Sliced Light

    Sliced Light

    Sliced Light

    01977HD

    Buena Vista Park in San Francisco like you've never seen it. "Playing" my 16mm Beaulieu camera like a musical instrument with extremely rapid zooming...

    Sliced Light