The animation is by Eric Drooker, a former graffiti artist (now a well-known graphic-novel illustrator who's drawn several New Yorker covers) who designed posters for Ginsberg in the 1970s and '80s, then did the illustrations for a book called Illuminated Poems, which included several of Ginsberg's works. In that sense, Drooker's animation here (and a graphic novel of Howl that's also just come out) can be seen as an extension of a Ginsberg-authorized concept. But Ginsberg made several odd choices as the years transpired, and this strikes me as one of them, an experiment with new forms that didn't work, that undermined the power of the original.