Poetry Movies

This video by Coco Fusco includes footage of the artist traveling by boat around Hart Island, the site of New York’s public cemetery that was...

To Hold My Love is a short film merging dance, fashion, and spoken words. Through their bodies and their language, the five dancers pull the viewers...

A little boy troubled by a paper bird - Quote : "I am alone in my gondola, I am trapped in the sky, My name's Nathan, I don't like the real"

When Dominik forges a friendship with a classmate who suffers from a unique speech impediment, his whole world turns upside down. Now, during summer...

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time,...

An audiovisual letter that connects an imagined Kyrgyzstan with the filmmaker’s inner world, blending personal illness, memory, and political...

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the...

Self-absorbed artist Jenny voices her grievances with the world and the people around her as she enters a series of poetry competitions.

The film tells the story of Alejandra Pizarnik: mythic Argentine poet who committed suicide at the age of 36. Her personal diaries, letters, poems,...

A poetry film that tells the story of a man struggling with his deteriorating mental state and self-destruction.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

A boy-poet from the village enrolls at the elementary school in the nearest city, but the other kids reject him for not being one of theirs. However,...

Absorbed in his thoughts, an artist is trapped behind his chaotic world.

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. ...

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

"And where most end we'll find our way to start."

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of...