Joel Singer Movies

  • 1983
    Devotions

    Devotions

    Devotions

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

    Devotions
  • 1981
    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    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

    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
  • 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

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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...

    Windowmobile
  • 1976
    Glyphs I

    Glyphs I

    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
  • 1981
    Fractive Clusters

    Fractive Clusters

    Fractive Clusters

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

    Fractive Clusters
  • 1988
    Scattered Remains

    Scattered Remains

    Scattered Remains

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    Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

    Scattered Remains
  • 1977
    Glyphs II

    Glyphs II

    Glyphs II

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    17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977

    Glyphs II
  • 2010
    Liberty

    Liberty

    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...

    Liberty
  • 1976
    Perisphere

    Perisphere

    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
  • 1974
    Breakdown

    Breakdown

    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
  • 1977
    Sliced Light

    Sliced Light

    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...

    Sliced Light