Joel Singer

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

Contemplative images of rivers, snow, waterfall, mountain and bodies.

A 360 degree pan breaks down as the narrator's memories of the house in which she sits by the fireplace breaks down.

My 10 minute silent b/w film made in 1975/76. Includes the first footage I ever shot of James Broughton (before he grew a beard).

A traffic circle (in North Berkeley). The forcefield around the centre. Single-framed over the course of about 9 months.

“I left the city in 2009. A year later, I returned for a few months and took the ferry out to see Ms. Liberty close up for the first time. On the ferry I recorded the voices of some of my fellow passengers saying ‘Statue of Liberty.’ I spent the next month recording many more people saying the words in a wondrous variety of accents and languages. I was moved by the delight and pleasure that people took in uttering these magical words: words suggesting freedom and hope for millions of immigrants” (Joel Singer).

Men in pairs, mostly naked, perform various sensual tasks together.

17 minutes, silent, colour. 1977