Punk Drunk Love is a short film directed, produced, written & edited by Anthony Alfonso.
The film is about Alexander, a 17 year old introvert, who wants a normal life away from his stuck up Catholic high school where he feels he doesn’t belong. When his Jesus obsessed mother agrees to consider to put him in a public school, he falls for a girl in the punk rock scene and plots a scheme to win her over. The only friends he has along the way are the clay figures he makes in his room and talks to in his head. As Alex starts to break out of his shell he struggles to find out what ‘being yourself’ really means and starts to figure out that the punk rock scene might not be the life for him. Fused with a vigorous soundtrack of punk & ska galore, as well as stop motion animation, ‘Punk? Drunk. Love!’ is a unique vision with a lot of heart and loads of energy! Chances are your face will melt off and/or your head will implode when you watch it because it is so incredible.
While making this film, Anthony was influenced by anything ranging from low budget local tv commercials to high octane independent Japanese punk films. (Burst City, Tetsuo: The Iron Man) Some other big influences for this film were Wes Anderson, John Hughes and Baz Luhrmann. Buuuut mostly Anthony just winged it and made crap up as he went along.
