SCATTERED REMAINS (US, 1988, James Broughton and Joel Singer)

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SCATTERED REMAINS (US, 1988, James Broughton and Joel Singer)

Described as “a cheerfully death-obsessed tribute to James Broughton’s poetry and filmmaking,” SCATTERED REMAINS is a cinematic performance piece enlivened by its experiments in poetic speech and poetic vision. Joel Singer creates a multi-faceted portrait of Broughton, who acts out his poetic verses within unlikely situations and surprising camera inventions. In the course of this divertissement, Broughton probes the puzzlements of mortality, destiny, and the magic of language.

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TOGETHER (US, 1976, James Broughton and Joel Singer)

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TOGETHER (US, 1976, James Broughton and Joel Singer)

In 1976, two years after their meeting, Joel Singer proposed that James Broughton be the subject of an experimental film portrait. This suggestion reenergized Broughton’s artistic practice. The resulting film, TOGETHER, consists of two disparate images of Broughton’s head — captured by Singer on high-contrast, black-and-white, 16mm film — slowly conjoining from opposite sides of the screen via rapid frame-by-frame intercutting. This stroboscopic imagery is accompanied by Broughton’s recitation of his poem of the same name.

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