Seems that he was a BoyLover, too. Or, an "omnisexual". Comment on one site: "DREAMWOOD is James Broughton's major work to date. It is a modern day spiritual odyssey in which a man is mysteriously compelled to leave his home and embark on a voyage to a strange and magical island. On the island he faces the most improbable and intense experiences of his life, ranging from total humiliation to a deep sense of oneness with the forces of life. Heroic in concept, subtle in execution, DREAMWOOD is a beautiful film by a true master of the medium." – David Bienstock "DREAMWOOD is Broughton's finest film." – Jerome Hill "No single film in the whole of the American avant-garde comes as close as this one to the source of the trance film, Cocteau's Blood of a Poet." – P. Adams Sitney SOURCE FOR ABOVE: https://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/james-broughton-dreamwood Other site description: Dreamwood (1972) A spiritual odyssey into a dreamscape where a poet hero sets forth to rescue the bride of his soul. "Dream wood alludes to several myths– Hippolytus, Apollo, Sisyphus, and Narcissus are seen passing in the background of different scenes, but these allusions become witty intrusions into the otherwise thoroughly personalized vision... No single film in the whole of American avant-garde comes as close as this one to the source of trance film, Cocteau's Le Sand d'Un Poet." - P. Adams Sitney in Visionary Film. James Broughton wrote: "Somewhere there is a forest somewhere at the center of the world there is a forest of the dream, a sacred wood, a grove of initiation. Somewhere there is what there has always been: the treasure hard to attain, the lair of the Great Goddess, the bed of the ultimate rapture." Somewhere (at the center of the world) there is an island called Animandra, or the Kingdom of Her. And somewhere in the wilds of Animandra there is a magic wood known as Broceliande, the Perilous Forest. Within this labyrinthine grove the dream wood mysteries take place, the tests, the encounters, the rites of the Goddess in her many forms. Only a hero dares risk his life by entering the realm of the feminine powers. And most heroic is the poet, perhaps guided as he is (and taunted) by that blessed damozel, his muse, whose name is Alchemina. Ordinary men remain safely outside in the dry meadows of their masculine games. But to the main who conquers his fear, persists in his quest and wins her favor, the Goddess of Dreamwood will reveal her greatest secret. This homage to Cocteau flows from my own poet's blood and unfolds in the cadences of mythic ritual. In the summer of 1970 John Schofill brought his Arriflex from the Chicago Art Institute to make images of fierce clarity for my apparitional narrative. For the rites of initiation we created a sacred wood in Mount Tamalpais State Park, not without harassment from the rangers. Kermit assisted me throughout, Henry Taylor endured the poet's trials valiantly, and Morton Subotnik supplied the music. SOURCE OF ABOVE: https://bigjoy.vhx.tv/products/dreamwood UNFAVORABLE REVIEW ON IMDb FROM AN APPARENT SEXOPHOBE: Unbearable Experimental trash alexxvandyne30 March 2022 Very early 70's experimental head movie. No dialogue, no story, but much male and female nudity. Main "character" arrives on a mysterious island and walks, runs, climbs and crawls around it, meeting up with hallucinatory people, young and old, mostly nude. He runs across a transvestite Orson Welles-looking man, then another naked man pushing a crate up a hill, and later a nun who strips naked, then another woman who strips and climbs atop his prone naked body. The film (all of 45 minutes) ends as meaningless as it started. A failed experiment. After ten minutes you realize it's going nowhere. And the "music score" is an unbearable electronic assault of early 70's blurps, beeps and screeches, as if scored by R2 D2. The film looks like it was made at a nudist colony, complete with naked children. It even includes the naked main character peeing right at the camera. Ugh! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068506/reviews/?ref_=ttpl_ql_2 SEE ALSO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Broughton Hippies! Sheesh! M. [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |