The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Mar 1972
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.
Oct 1953
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)
Aug 1948
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
Sep 1951
Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
Jan 1983
A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.
An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.
Mar 1981
