This film was directed by Jonathan Hodgson and designed by Jonny Hanah.
The idea was to create a visual sequence that matched the poetry, resulting in a flowing stream of images with no cuts. For that purpose the animation is constructed in order to evolve and be complementary to the words of the Charles Bukowski poem.
I remember seeing this Film at The Annecy film Festival in 1999, remember writing about it in a small magazine with my friend .
Wake up high up
frame bent & turned on
Moving slowly
& by the numbers
light cigarette
Dress in basic black
& reading a lovely old man’s book:
BY THE WATERS OF MANHATTAN
change
flashback
play cribbage on the Williamsburg Bridge
watching the boats sail by
the sun, like a monument,
move slowly up the sky
above the bloody rush:
break yr legs & break yr heart
kiss the girls & make them cry
loving the gods & seeing them die
celebrate your own
& everyone else’s birth:
Make friends forever
& go away