BIG JOY at Anthology Film Archives NEW YORK

Screening at 8pm on March 21, 22 & 23 In celebration of his centennial, we’re pleased to present these special screenings of BIG JOY, the new documentary on the life and work of James Broughton. Broughton was a member of the Essential Cinema selection committee in the early 1970s alongside Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, P. Adams Sitney, and Jonas Mekas, a crucial participant in the formation of Anthology Film Archives. A charismatic figure, Broughton led a completely unconventional, counter-cultural existence as a filmmaker and poet. The directors of BIG JOY vividly follow the course of Broughton’s deeply intertwined creative and personal lives through his involvement with a wide array of artists, activists and spiritual guides. Among them movie critic Pauline Kael, choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin, filmmaker Sidney Peterson, theater actor and playwright Kermit Sheets, designer Suzanna Hart, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Eastern philosopher Alan Watts and film student protégé Joel Singer. These screenings of BIG JOY, which has successfully toured festivals around the world for a year, mark the launch of a national theatrical tour. Tickets are available at Anthology's box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales. Co-presented by Mix Nyc ‘Fascinating…a revealing portrait of a man who helped to broaden our ideas of what films could accomplish.’ - The Hollywood Reporter ‘A great documentary’- Variety "An unusually intimate and unflinching portrait of the arc of Broughton’s life from childhood to death and from the dark depths of his own depression to the ecstasy of his creative freedom and sexual liberation, all in the service of Broughton’s lifelong quest to find his own ‘Big Joy.’” – Jon Gartenberg, Tribeca Film Festival