Special Preview Screenings of Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton all week…

Plus special events!

Our Directors are being honored as Visiting Artists at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle!

1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA

Join us for special film introductions from director Stephen Silha on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Thursday at the 7pm screenings!

Friday, November 1

Opening Night & After Party

AFTER PARTY at PONY

1221 E Madison St, Seattle, Washington 98122

 

*Mention “BIG JOY” at PONY bar for Happy Hour Specials all night Friday, Saturday, Sunday!

Saturday, November 2 & Sunday, November 3

Seattle: Small Joys from James Broughton

Hosted by the Northwest Film Forum (Info/Tickets – see details)

5 p.m. Saturday (The Bed, Mother’s Day, Dreamwood)

5 p.m. Sunday (The Pleasure Garden, The Golden Positions, The Gardener of Eden)

SATURDAY PROGRAM ~ 5pm

The Bed

(James Broughton, USA, 1968, 16mm, 20 min)

“One of the most lyrically erotic of independent films, The Bed is a merry allegory which celebrates impudently and imaginatively just about everything that could happen in bed (and some things that couldn’t) – birth, young love, loneliness, dreams and death, amid all sorts of hanky-panky from fetishism to plain old lechery.” —LA Free Press

“Broughton’s finest film by far. It exists in a state of play fully realized.” —Stan Brakhage

Mother’s Day

(James Broughton, USA, 1948, 16mm, 15 min)

“Mothers Day for me is one of the great films in film history.” —Peter Kubelka

Dreamwood

(James Broughton, USA, 1972, 16mm, 45 min)

“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

“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

 

SUNDAY PROGRAM ~ 5pm

The Pleasure Garden

(James Broughton, USA, 1953, 16mm, 38 min)

“It’s on the side of the angels. It’s a great testimony for Love.” —Allen Ginsberg

The Golden Positions

(James Broughton, 1970, USA, 16mm, 32 min)

“The Golden Positions is a rich, warm, clear statement of humanism. There is no angst, no fragmentation, no overt experimentation. It stands apart from most of the films of the past two decades by its feeling of certainty, positiveness, and completeness. And, most importantly, The Golden Positions gives us a deep and restful pleasure in the viewing.” —Sheldon Renan

The Gardener of Eden

(James Broughton, USA, 1981, 16mm, 8.5 min)

“An ecstatic masterpiece!” —Stan Brakhage

Thursday, November 7

Pre-Screening Poetry Reading

We welcome local poet Thomas Pruiksma for a special pre-screening reading at the Sunday 7pm screening! About Thomas:

Thomas Pruiksma is a poet, magician, writer, translator, teacher, musician, and lover of life. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and has lived and worked in Tamil Nadu, India, and Oaxaca, Mexico. He is most recently the author and translator of Give, Eat, and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar and the co-author of Body and Earth: Notes from a Conversation (with the artist C.F. John) and A Feast for the Tongue: Forty Servings of Spoken Tamil with Helpings of Equally Spoken English (with the scholar Dr. K. V. Ramakoti). He now makes his home on Vashon Island, Washington, with his partner, David Mielke.

 

Closing Night Party!

Thursday, November 7

1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA

Join us at a special fundraising reception for Northwest Documentary Fund preceding our 7 p.m film screening!