Poet Movies
- 2026

Observing as the World Burns
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Observing as the World Burns: Poems is an evocative, introspective short film that transforms lines of verse into raw visual poetry—confronting...
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- 1970

Voices & Visions: T.S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The...
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- 2017

Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor
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Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan...
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- 2007

Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa
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Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic Gunnar Ekelöf. The film is an attempt to visually articulate how Ekelöf saw...
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- 2024

Riyadh Poem
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A doctor is tasked by his general manager, who suffers from cancer and is being manipulated. Will the important thing be based on what he won, or is...
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- 2020

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code02020HD
As Genesis and I were working on the documentary film "Change Itself” (released in 2016), we agreed that it would be great to also have Genesis...
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- 1976

Karel Jonckheere
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Documentary about the life and work of Flemish poet Karel Jonckheere looked at from four perspectives/professions: farmer, fisherman, sheepherder and...
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- 1971

London Line No. 373
London Line No. 37301971HD
A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain.
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- 2024

Recite With Your Hands
Recite With Your Hands02024HD
Yeong-in, an editor, poetry student, and deaf person, attends a public reading of a poetry collection she has edited. Yeong-in records the poet's...
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- 2026

If This World Were Mine
If This World Were Mine02026HD
If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...
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- 2016

Kenneth: Ron Padgett
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Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...
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- 2025

Rilke - Du musst Dein Leben ändern
Rilke - Du musst Dein Leben ändern02025HD
A major poet of the early twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is as much part of pop culture as the literary canon. The Austrian writer...
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- 1970

Pra Milan i Rtanjska bića
Pra Milan i Rtanjska bića01970HD
Pra-Milan (73) is a poet, philosopher, and two-time presidential candidate from the 1990s. After winning a lawsuit against the state for the...
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- 2016

NYC: Ron Padgett
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Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...
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- 2017

Karl's Perfect Day
Karl's Perfect Day62017HD
A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.
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- 1990

Searching for Layla al-'Amiriya
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Libyan film based on a work by Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih. The film's events revolve around an Arab woman, her status and varying roles, examined through...
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- 2019

The Poem, My Old Mother
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In a small rural village in Jeollanam-do, senior ladies learn to read and write from Mrs. Kim at a 'Sall Library at the Road,' a community library...
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