'When in doubt, twirl." There was a time when that sage advice, given by the late queer genius James Broughton, was actually subversive, an exhortation to burrow deeper in one's queerness when faced with adversity. It's now the type of statement likely to be uttered by some reality TV show nitwit on a shopping spree.
Broughton, poet, filmmaker and Renaissance man, is the subject of the exhilarating documentary Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, co-directed by Stephen Silha, Eric Slade, and Dawn Logsdon. His life was larger than fiction. It spanned a poor-little-rich-boy childhood, the making of groundbreaking experimental films influenced by Cocteau and Maya Deren, being part of a late-'40s San Francisco arts movement that planted the seeds for the Beats....
Broughton, poet, filmmaker and Renaissance man, is the subject of the exhilarating documentary Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, co-directed by Stephen Silha, Eric Slade, and Dawn Logsdon. His life was larger than fiction. It spanned a poor-little-rich-boy childhood, the making of groundbreaking experimental films influenced by Cocteau and Maya Deren, being part of a late-'40s San Francisco arts movement that planted the seeds for the Beats....
- 6/18/2014
- Village Voice
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