MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 5: BROUGHTON EC+
James Broughton, prolific poet-filmmaker and member of Anthology's own Essential Cinema Selection Committee, was one of many Bay Area experimental filmmakers whose work was distributed by the Multi-Media Resource Center. Generally advertised in the "Erotic Fantasy" section of the distributor's catalogs, Broughton's films were recontextualized by their inclusion, their sensuality and spirituality understood as components of a holistic understanding of sexuality for the sex educator or therapist. In this special edition of Anthology's Broughton Essential Cinema program, three characteristic works of the filmmaker's late 60s-early 70s output are preceded by a very special entry in the National Sex Forum filmography, in which Broughton himself is bathed and massaged by erotic masseur Kenneth Ray Stubbs. Laird Sutton JAMES (1979, 10 min, 16mm) James Broughton THE BED (1968, 19 min, 16mm) James Broughton NUPTIAE (1969, 14 min, 16mm) James Broughton THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 min, 16mm)