Poetry Movies

  • 2020
    Solentiname

    Solentiname

    Solentiname

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    Solentime (2020), directed by Carlos Henríquez Consalvi and Camilo Henríquez, revisits the memory of poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal and...

    Solentiname
  • 1993
    The Art of Tripping

    The Art of Tripping

    The Art of Tripping

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    Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug...

    The Art of Tripping
  • 1975
    Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète

    Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète

    Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète

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    Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

    Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète
  • 1970
    ISHI

    ISHI

    ISHI

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    1-channel film installation (21‘20‘‘). 2.00:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound. A wife waits for her dead husband. An...

    ISHI
  • 1968
    The Father-in-Law

    The Father-in-Law

    The Father-in-Law

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    Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the...

    The Father-in-Law
  • 1971
    This is It

    This is It

    This is It

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    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...

    This is It
  • 1993
    A Life Together: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon

    A Life Together: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon

    A Life Together: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon

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    Performance and conversation with husband-and-wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at a New Jersey festival, in their Wilmot (N.H.) hometown and...

    A Life Together: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon
  • 1975
    Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März

    Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März

    Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März

    01975HD

    A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces...

    Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März
  • 2016
    The Book of Conrad

    The Book of Conrad

    The Book of Conrad

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    About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his...

    The Book of Conrad
  • 1976
    The Spring Night

    The Spring Night

    The Spring Night

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    A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle...

    The Spring Night
  • 2017
    Last Love

    Last Love

    Last Love

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    The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole...

    Last Love
  • 2020
    The Waters of the Bug River

    The Waters of the Bug River

    The Waters of the Bug River

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    Dedicated to the poet Paul Celan, the film traces the itinerary of the deportation of Jews from Czernowitz and Bucovina to Mikhailovka camp on the...

    The Waters of the Bug River
  • 1935
    After the Storm

    After the Storm

    After the Storm

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    Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.

    After the Storm
  • 2025
    Inmuebles

    Inmuebles

    Inmuebles

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    In the course of a real estate search a poem is produced. Images play around this drift between properties.

    Inmuebles
  • 2005
    Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc

    Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc

    Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc

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    A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of...

    Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc
  • 2024
    Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

    Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

    Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

    02024HD

    The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

    Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
  • 1978
    Les Mains négatives

    Les Mains négatives

    Les Mains négatives

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    Traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of...

    Les Mains négatives
  • 1970
    Sunnyside

    Sunnyside

    Sunnyside

    01970HD

    Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and...

    Sunnyside
  • 2014
    Summer Snow

    Summer Snow

    Summer Snow

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    Short experimental movie about sea, love and trust.

    Summer Snow
  • 2024
    Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

    Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

    Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

    02024HD

    A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning...

    Tuesdays: (A Poem!).