Poetry Movies

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little...

Yu-rye Kim, she began studying literature late in her life and debuted as a poet at 67. Now 86, she still carves her life through poetry and...

Language of Mules is a poignant exploration of the haunting legacy of the Holocaust through the eyes and words of poet and author John Guzlowski....

In a desperate conflict with his own thoughts, a man tries to find a way to express his feelings to the girl he likes through his mind.

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

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.

The attempt to await something. A visual representation of internal movements.

"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...

Shows that poems can be written about many subjects. Points out that choral speaking and impromptu composition can increase the enjoyment of poems.

Filmmaker Tegan Pearce combines autobiographical spoken word and expressive visual direction to present a cinematic interpretation of autism.

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...

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

A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.

Questions are asked, things are contemplated. It's about you.

A short student film about life through the eyes of an assassin stalking his prey, using the poem The Tyger by William Blake.

A young boy recalls his grandmother’s guidance on how to cross the street, as he spiritually retraces this ritual in Manila—where memory,...

Tells the story a woman's life (and death) through poetry and symbolism.