Poem Movies

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

In a letter that could be his last, Bruce, a soldier, reminisces about the poet who rewrote the verses of his life, Darlene.

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

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

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial...

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

The experiences of five free-spirited individuals trying to break free from societal norms. Each narrative discusses creativity, mental health, labor...

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

A solitary man grows beans that become a mirror of his own confined existence. Witness and victim of his reality, he shares the fate he imposes on...

Based on the poem "I Will Love the 21st Century" by Mark Strand

As Black and LGBTQ+ History Month begin this February, material science clothing brand PANGAIA leads celebrations with a poetic film that honors...

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the...

Two girls go from home to business stealing mail and packages in search of something mysterious.

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a...

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...