Movies: Poetry

Three short experimental video lyrics based on the classical figure....

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A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink....

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 creative work and not a biography of his personal life. “Let’s keep it simple and about the work, with maybe...

A collage of images and voices of women poets that succeeds brilliantly, both as a tribute to the women whose words are borrowed and as an original videopoem....

In his debut feature-length film, poet and author Paul Molinar offers an exciting assortment of musical performances, poetry recitations, and serious philosophical discussions. With this film, Molinar hopes to encourage those enduring difficult times...

A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece....

A creation story in epic poem format that traces our origins from the big bang to now, using science, poetry, storytelling, visual art, music, 'oli [chant], and dancing....

A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!...

In a bland and lonesome reality of everyday life, Lomo discovers a portal to an alternate universe. Trying to find her way back home, she stumbles upon what is genuinely important in life and learns the meaning of friendship....

“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 the stories that could be extracted. The visual images shown through this film captures my artistic style in its m...

A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost....

A short poem written by the director's uncle during her childhood is illustrated in a vision of bright nocturnal memory....

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. Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion explores the life, work and sensual poetic imagination of the revolutionary Irish p...

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Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's spoken word contest-- this short follows a young woman's emotions as she muses about the color of a fo...