As Allen Ginberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation whil...
As Allen Ginberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
