At the Quinte Hotel

• 2005
• •
• 4m

• Animation

★ 8.0 TMDB Rating · 1 votes

America had Charles Bukowski and Canada had Al Purdy, a hard-drinking, hard-living poet who wrote about bars, hockey and beer. In this vibrant and kinetic short film, Purdy reads his best-known poem (involving a beer, a bar, and a brawl) accompanied by a dizzying array of animation that perfectly captures the work's ironic tone and its exuberant evocation of alcohol, antagonism and Art.

Director

Bruce Alcock

Release date

Oct 15, 2005

Original language

English

Origin

United States