At the Quinte Hotel

At the Quinte Hotel — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 15, 2005
• Runtime
• 4 min
• Genres
• Animation
• Director
• Bruce Alcock