a tribute to Broughton's poetry and filmmaking. Broughton explored death deeply throughout his life. He died in May 1999 with champagne on his lips, in the house in Port Townsend, Washington, where he and Singer had lived for 10 years. His last words were: "My creeping decrepitude has crept me all the way to the crypt." His gravestone in a Port Townsend cemetery reads, "Adventure – not predicament." Personal life In Coming Unbuttoned, Broughton remarks on his love affairs with both men and women. Among his male lovers was gay activist Harry Hay. Broughton had many creative love affairs during the San Francisco Beat Scene. He briefly lived with the film critic Pauline Kael and they had a daughter, Gina, who was born in 1948. Broughton put off marriage until age 49, when he married Suzanna Hart in a three-day ceremony on the Pacific coast, documented by his friend, the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. Hart and Broughton had two children, and built a counter-culture community along with friends including Alan Watts, Michael McClure, Anna Halprin, and Imogen Cunningham. Broughton is the subject of the 2012 documentary Big Joy: the Adventures of James Broughton from Stephen Silha, Eric Slade, Dawn Logson and cinematographer Ian Hinkle. Filmography The Potted Psalm (with Sidney Peterson) (1946) 18 min Mother's Day (1948) 22 min 16 mm Adventures of Jimmy (1950) 11 min 16 mm Four in the Afternoon (1951) 15 min 16 mm Loony Tom, The Happy Lover (1951) 10.5 min 16 mm The Pleasure Garden (1953) 38 min 35 mm The Bed (1968) 20 min 16 mm Nuptiae (1969) 14 min 16 mm The Golden Positions (1970) 16 mm This Is It (1971) 10 min 16 mm Dreamwood (1972) 45 min 16 mm High Kukus (1973) 3 min 16 mm Testament (1974) 20 min 16 mm The Water Circle (1975) 3 min 16 mm Together (with Joel Singer) (1976) 3 min 16 mm Erogeny (1976) 6 min 16 mm Windowmobile (with Joel Singer) (1977) 8 min 16 mm Song of the Godbody (with Joel Singer) (1977) 11 min 16 mm Hermes Bird (1979) 11 min 16 mm The Gardener of Eden (with Joel Singer) (1981) 8.5 min 16 mm Shaman Psalm (with Joel Singer) (1981) 7 min 16 mm Devotions (with Joel Singer) (1983) 22 min 16 mm Scattered Remains (with Joel Singer) (1988) 14 min 16 mm Bibliography Songs for Certain Children (1947)