Devotions 1983
Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.
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.
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)
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.
An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.