Poetry Movies

A young poet grapples with his decision to leave society during the end of the world.

"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of...

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

A collaborative film created during Lockdown in response to the political landscape and the work of Daisaku Ikeda.

An experimental visual poem combining film, animation, photography, and archival footage inviting people to occupy the Black Body and examine the...

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

A short poetic narrative about dealing with separation. Told in French and presented to English audiences without subtitles to leave the characters'...

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...

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...

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she tells of her life and work, and reads...

A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet,...

“I love poetry because it makes me feel like my mind expands.” In Regard Silence, that's the very first sentence expressed—in sign...

CHICKENPOX is a poetry/film/zine project which seeks to undermine the binary of love and violence; to show that they are much more intertwined than...