The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden 1953

6.00

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.

1953

Four in the Afternoon

Four in the Afternoon 1951

5.70

Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.

1951

Devotions

Devotions 1983

3.50

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

1983

Mother's Day

Mother's Day 1948

6.00

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)

1948

Dreamwood

Dreamwood 1972

4.20

Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.

1972

Loony Tom the Happy Lover

Loony Tom the Happy Lover 1951

4.50

A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.

1951

The Gardener of Eden

The Gardener of Eden 1981

5.00

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

1981