James Broughton

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   Now Available: New Digital Files of Nine Films by James Broughton and Joel Singer

   Posted June 10th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events
   

   Canyon Cinema is thrilled to announce that new digital files of nine films by James Broughton and Joel Singer are now available! After meeting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974, Joel Singer and James Broughton spent the next 25 years together, “sharing fully in art and life.” This new acquisition includes seven Broughton-Singer […]

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   Now Available on 16mm: New Prints of James Broughton’s Hermes Bird and High Kukus, and Broughton & Joel Singers’ The Gardener of Eden

   Posted July 16th, 2015 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   New, beautiful prints of Hermes Bird, High Kukus and The Gardener of Eden are now available for loan from Canyon Cinema! High Kukus (1973 | 3 minutes | COLOR | SOUND) “A visualization of the Zen dictum of ‘sitting quietly, doing nothing,’ HIGH KUKUS uses a single beautiful visual image while it delights with a poetic […]

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   Big Joy Screening SEP 4th–TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

   Posted August 17th, 2014 in Events and Screenings, News / Events
   

     Join us on September 4th at 7:00 PM when we co-present Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton with our friends at The Roxie Theatre! From Roxie’s announcement: “Big Joy serves as a chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution. Broughton’s groundbreaking […]

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