Poetry Movies

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...

This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.

In his debut feature-length film, poet and author Paul Molinar offers an exciting assortment of musical performances, poetry recitations, and serious...

A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece.

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...

A creation story in epic poem format that traces our origins from the big bang to now, using science, poetry, storytelling, visual art, music, 'oli...

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's...

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

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

Forced into quarantine for 10 days upon arrival in Rome, an exchange student’s journey into processing the past comes to a sudden stop, as he...

In a bland and lonesome reality of everyday life, Lomo discovers a portal to an alternate universe. Trying to find her way back home, she stumbles...

“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and...

A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.

A short poem written by the director's uncle during her childhood is illustrated in a vision of bright nocturnal memory.

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...