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
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.
Sep 1951
An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.
Mar 1981
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
The oneiric quest of a modern argonaut on a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Mar 1972