Movies: Joel Singer

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

Broughton reads his poetry over various images....

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977...

“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...

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)....

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