Joel Singer Movies

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

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

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

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

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

Mapping extreme close-ups of Broughton's body, the camera slowly becomes a tool to reveal the erotic beauty of the body and the sensual pleasure in...

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

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

17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977

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...

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

“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...

A motion portrait of poet James Broughton, by his long time partner and filmmaker Joel Singer. Original music by Lou Harrison.

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).