The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (1999)

Jonathan Hodgson and the illustrator Jonny Hannah turned a Charles Bukowski poem into six minutes of paint, ink and collage, built frame by frame. A gang of children hang around the overgrown yard of a house their parents warn them off, and the drinking man who lives there, wholly careless of the rules they are being raised on, fascinates them. The rough, handwritten look suits Bukowski far better than a polished cartoon would, and the film won the BAFTA for short animation in 2000. Psyche presents it online, and it works as a gateway for anyone who assumes Bukowski is all bar-room swagger: this is the tender, unsettling side of him.