Poetry Movies

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...

A poetic study of thirst. Stylized images of flowing water and the face of a young woman flowing past as in a metaphysical dream. The magic and...

About Swedish artist, painter, sculptor and set designer Sven "X-et" Erixson, presented with Lars Johan Werle's music and accompanied by readings...

A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community.

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems...

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning...

Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past...

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. ...

1-channel film installation (21‘20‘‘). 2.00:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound. A wife waits for her dead husband. An...

A man visits a woman, speaks, smokes, eats fruit and walks out again. Clothes appear on hangers before they one by one disappear. There is a sense of...

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis,...

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...

Two friends, two Viennese, two poets, two unusual women. They have known each other for 30 years. Elfriede Jelinek is the better known of the two,...

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human bipolar mixture of genius and madman....

Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's...

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle...