From 1948 to 1953, James Broughton crafted a series of humorous, at times fantastical, and often playfully anti-authoritarian films imbued with his poetic practice that earned him the reputation of “the father of West Coast experimental cinema.” GME is pleased to present three of those films — Broughton’s solo debut Mother's Day (1948), 1951’s Four in the Afternoon, and the artist’s crowning achievement from this period, 1953’s The Pleasure Garden — in the curated package Early Films by James Broughton.