The Pleasure Garden 1953
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
Farallone Films
Mother's Day 1948
Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)
Four in the Afternoon 1951
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
Dreamwood 1972
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Loony Tom the Happy Lover 1951
A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.
Devotions 1983
Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
The Gardener of Eden 1981
An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.
