Poetry Movies

When Robert Lax was approached in the early 1980s about doing a video documentary on him, he had only one condition—that it be focused on his...

A short film adaptation of the titular poem by Melissa Lozada-Oliva.

A short film inspired by the poetry of Billy Collins.

In the film, the outstanding contemporary avant-garde poet Vladimir Ignatiev, the heir of OBERIUT, appeared. He played himself and read his own...

James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small...

A journey into a mind of an artist with creative crisis.

In a desperate conflict with his own thoughts, a man tries to find a way to express his feelings to the girl he likes through his mind.

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was...

The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time,...

Documentary film about the great forgotten of Chilean literature. With interviews with family members, poets and artists who knew him, this feature...

“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and...

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human bipolar mixture of genius and madman....

Tells the story a woman's life (and death) through poetry and symbolism.

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using...

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

Combining the authenticity of Indigenous writer Rebecca Thomas' narrative, the power of poetry, and stunning animation, "I Place You into the Fire"...

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...

Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past...