Poem Movies

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

An expression of time and memories.

This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the...

Based on the poem by Keaton St. James, the film follows two young teenage boys and the people they interact with on the day of the end of the world.

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

You are alive like they are.

From his book, Les Fleurs du Mal, an adaptation of Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem, Une Charogne.

Video poem about New Hampshire and its foliage in Autumn

The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of...

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

Video poem based on The Last Dragon by Radu Stanca.

A film by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen, based on the poem "Girl on the escalator" by Charles Bukowski.

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.

We all carry our leaves, some of winter, some of spring and summer. But all leaves grow, breathe and wither with time; and so do we.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's...