Movies: Joel Singer

  • 1981
    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden (1981)

    The Gardener of Eden

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

    The Gardener of Eden
  • 2013
    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013)

    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 revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of ...

    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
  • 1977
    Song of the Godbody

    Song of the Godbody (1977)

    Song of the Godbody

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    Close-up shots of Broughton's body....

    Song of the Godbody
  • 1983
    Devotions

    Devotions (1983)

    Devotions

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

    Devotions
  • 1977
    Windowmobile

    Windowmobile (1977)

    Windowmobile

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    Images, Joel Singer; Sounds, James Broughton. "The film is shot both through and at a window, superimposing and conjoining, thereby elaborating events on both sides of the glass. Broughton's accompanying poem sings the same song as the images, sound...

    Windowmobile
  • 1976
    Glyphs I

    Glyphs I (1976)

    Glyphs I

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    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
  • 1988
    Scattered Remains

    Scattered Remains (1988)

    Scattered Remains

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    Broughton reads his poetry over various images....

    Scattered Remains
  • 1977
    Glyphs II

    Glyphs II (1977)

    Glyphs II

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    17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977...

    Glyphs II
  • 1981
    Fractive Clusters

    Fractive Clusters (1981)

    Fractive Clusters

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

    Fractive Clusters
  • 1974
    Breakdown

    Breakdown (1974)

    Breakdown

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

    Breakdown
  • 2010
    Liberty

    Liberty (2010)

    Liberty

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    “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 the ferry I recorded the voices of some of my fellow passengers saying ‘Statue of Liberty.’ I spent the next...

    Liberty
  • 1976
    Perisphere

    Perisphere (1976)

    Perisphere

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    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 (1977)

    Sliced Light

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    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 and inverted images. The virtuoso musician Peter Plonsky plays his Chromatic Khaen, an ancient Laoti...

    Sliced Light