This is Director Bruce Alcock’s take on Canadian poet Al Purdy’s poem “At The Quinte Hotel”, which tells the story of a man’s experience at the bar. The video is experimental, playful and imaginative. Say its creators of the process used to make this: “We used oil paint, acrylics, graphite, charcoal, wire, cut paper, a beer mug, linoleum, bottlecaps… you name it, we art-worked and animated it. Almost all the animation was done in-camera, except for a bit of compositing after the fact.”