Joel Singer Movies

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

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

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

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

17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

Close-up shots of Broughton's body.

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

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).

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

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

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...