This beautifully animated short film is called Beer. It’s a vivid interpretation of the poem of the same name by Charles Bukowski (who Time Magazine once described as the “laureate of American lowlife”). True story: Bukowski’s last international reading took place in Vancouver in the autumn of 1979. The performance was at the Viking Hall on East Hastings and was documented 25 years later in the film There’s Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here. He died in 1994.
Beer was directed by Nerdo and animated by the artist Daniele Gavatorta.
“The composition is a manifesto of the author’s way of life, this is why we decided to go inside the author’s mind, and it is not a safe journey. A brain solo without filter, a tale of ordinary madness, showing how much loneliness and decadence can be hidden inside a genius mind.”