Poet and filmmaker James Broughton was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the famous Beat Generation.  His work focuses on bodies and sexuality. In the tongue-in-cheek Adventures of Jimmy, he plays a lost man in search of “playmates,” eventually entering a monogamous relationship. The irony lies in the contrast between word and image.

It is a somewhat lighter film within Broughton’s experimental oeuvre, incorporating elements of farce and slapstick. He would later choose to remove the film from circulation, making it a rarely seen work. Too bad, because the jazzy soundtrack by Beat poet Harry Weldon Kees is also delightful.