Poetry Movies

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the...

Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts...

A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.

A video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

A nobleman poet embarks on boat trip with two local fishermen. As they hop the bucolic islands he recalls his youthful tragic love, his artistic...

A visual poetry short film, inspired by and featuring the poem "Knickknacks" by Tuesday Taylor York.

Third film of Juan José Ponce's trilogy about Federico García Lorca.

Two friends, two Viennese, two poets, two unusual women. They have known each other for 30 years. Elfriede Jelinek is the better known of the two,...

Ozymandias recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. Selected AI-generated images and text-to-speech narration - with their vutlure-like...

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

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s...

Two trans-folx friends, together with their dog and plants, grieve for and with each other during a 14-day quarantine period.

Denim' is a poetic short film by writer, poet and performer Siana Bangura, exploring gentrification and social cleansing in South East London....

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

Hilmano van Velzen, the "Homeless Poet" wants nothing more than to become famous with his poetry. But his addiction and character get in the way.

An elegy about ‘José Ð Almeida’s life and work. Along an intimate metamorphosis, this dreamlike and visually expressive world...

In Busto of a poet, the word is the real protagonist: the verses, reflections and texts of José Ángel Valente take shape through the...