#james broughton

[pierppasolini]

Devotions (1983) // dir. James Broughton, Joel Singer

[roserosette]

The Pleasure Garden, 1953, James Broughton

[dare-g]

The Potted Psalm (1946)

[noosphe-re]

Practically speaking cinema is: putting images together in various musical measures. Editing is the music of cinema, as music is the architecture of time. Editing gives film its form, notation, counterpoint, development, pace, syncopation and style. Such an alchemy should be spared the censorious term of Editing. The art is that of Composing. To edit film is to compose eye music. When you edit do you know what key you are in, what your signature is, what your measures are?

James Broughton, Seeing the Light

[sesiondemadrugada]

Four in the Afternoon (James Broughton, 1951).

[davidhudson]

James Broughton, November 10, 1913 – May 17, 1999.

With Joel Singer. Photo by Robert Giard.

[onenakedfarmer]

JAMES BROUGHTON "Afternoons in Ceylon I"

Luncheon had made us hungry for one another After the curry and fried bananas we added our own heat to the hot afternoon simmering in sweat and coconut oil as our two humidities rose high   higher                     Bang! outside the window        Bang!Bang! and the houseboy’s laughing shout

He had been tossing firecrackers at the roof to dislodge itinerant pigeons But at his feet had fallen a passing oriole shocked into gape      beak ajar Hurrying from the bedroom half-saronged we saw him kneel to the yellow bird fondle      cajole      kiss it      offer it back to the day Still it sat rigid in his hand

Chuckling then      you said Is this a golden trophy of our shooting match? At which the oriole blinked stretched and puffed spurted into the air vanished beyond the pawpaw tree

[schizografia]

Testament di James Broughton