James Broughton This Is It (1971)

James Broughton s creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2yearold Adam and a bright applered balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small miracle of the ordinary. And since that miracle is what his film is about, he achieves a kind of casual perfection in matching means and Robert Greenspun, The New York Times It s simple, inspired, and ecstatic. To watch Broughton s film you need a certain silence, a certain descending to the more subtle, more fragile levels of your being otherwise, the film and its content will not reach you, it will break to pieces. I figure this is the main reason why films of the stature and subtlety and ecstasy of THIS IS IT never reach the New York Film Festival Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice A seminal film that promises to affect the course of film art for some time to Hollis Frampton