Inspired by a half-page scene in John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat, where a family of poor, super healthy kids eat an almost exclusive bean diet, Beau decides to do much the same thing.
Eating only the contents of 191 tins of beans over 40 days transforms Beau into The Human Bean, and in doing so gives him a front row seat into how one food, totally and utterly, dictates how he feels. Beau uses his intimate knowledge of running to compare his former self to his bean-self, logging lacklustre training for an ultramarathon that he plans on running during the final day of the experiment. Epiphanies are had, saddles are blazed, and genuine insight emerges from what is strangely appealing day-to-day of mediocrity.
Produced and Directed by Beau Miles
Produced and Edited by Mitch Drummond
Official Selection: The Trail Running Film Festival, 2020.
Music:
El Mayor by Las Pampas
Eminence Landscape (Ins) by Ian Post
The Bluff of a Clown (Ins) by Anthony Lazaro
Days Pass by ANBR
Blanket (Ins) by Lance Conrad
Handpanaphone by David Charrier
Don’t Run Away by Max Apollo
Cat and Mouse (Ins) by Michael McQuaid
Fel Mocoso by Las Pampas
With Some Malice by Francesco D’Andrea
Beans eaten:
80 tins of organic baked beans in tomato sauce (13.8% carbs)
30 tins of organic kidney beans (5% carbs)
20 tins of organic blackbeans (12.5% carbs)
40 tins of four bean mix (10.5%)
10 tins Mexican bean mix (9% carbs)
10 tins butter beans (13% carbs)
1 tin of giant greek(?) beans (17% carbs)
