"The Bed" by James Broughton

Sausalito, CA

America was tired of being repressed. The times asked for a walks-between movie that would reconcile the Hippie movement with the Beat Movement, Mormons, Bible thumpers, Vaudeville, and other American traditions. A Belgian who loved Broughton's American visions asked him to make a film after 15 years of making no films following his 5 successful experimental films of the 1940s and 50s. The Bed was it; it later was used in hospital trainings to get people more comfortable with healthy sexuality and nudity. "Everything important in life occurs upon a bed..."

Stephen