Brother Verses Brother

Brother Verses Brother

Brother Verses Brother is a radically personal one-take musical film, at once formally inventive and deeply emotional. Two brothers, brandishing a guitar and ukulele, debate through the real streets of San Francisco, rip off short sets in noisy bars, and bicker about life, death, meaning, and music in bathrooms.
Based on the director’s own family – and performed by them – it follows the twin musicians playing the city while seeking their elderly poet father.

It is also a rare vision of American culture, taking the audience on a safari through the secret haunts of Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg – and co-starring the last Beat poet on earth, 99-year-old Herbert Gold, in a role performed just weeks before his death.

From Executive Producer Francis Ford Coppola, the film features original music by the Brothers Gold (Ethan Gold & Ari Gold), along with local jazz legend Lara Louise, Brian Bell (from the rock band Weezer), & San Francisco’s Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin.