Poetry Movies

"Before I left today, I almost forgot to answer a lot of e-mails."

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

A documentary on groundbreaking queer poet Hezi Leskly, who lived and worked between Tel Aviv and the Netherlands and died of Aids

A mini documentary about küçük İskender and his views on poetry.

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spirit at the helm of this natural disaster was...

In the period 1891-1927, Henriette Roland Holst goes through a dramatic development. As an aspiring poet from an affluent bourgeois milieu she throws...

"I thought of all those gloves I see here and there on the street and it's like they're waiting for someone to turn around, look for them, take them...

The brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt when he died at age 49. Is self-destruction required for a...

Accompanying from a place to another the poet who spent years in exile far from his native land of al-Birwa, in Haifa, Cyprus, Tunis, Amman, Paris,...

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

Swimming Lessons is a machinima film unfolding within Google Maps. Through confessional verse, the narrator maps the sites of a former relationship...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

At the beginning of the 70s, Jean Genet is in Tangier, he is in his sixties and he no longer writes. He lives in the El Minza hotel, a palace, where...

The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.

The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...

'La Mamma Morta’ is an aria from the opera Andrea Chenier that is also well-known for its use in a memorable sequence in the Oscar...

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording