Poetry Movies

Intimate portrait of Marie-Jo Gobron, belgian poet and the director's mother. 20 years after the release of a film about his father's paintings, the...

Alone, driven by hope, a blind painter wanders through the shards and shivers of the past in search of hopeless certainty.

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

The X-rated cartoon animations of Emmy award winning director/animator Merrill Aldighieri add a comical edge to this intense documentary with Lydia...

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using...

Death follows a poet for his whole life, being a parasite to the poet.

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

Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.

This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments...

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard Hugo features readings of some of his most famous...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and...

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and...

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower...

A short animation film based on the question "What is your interest?", a question that can be quite confronting for all kinds of people and...

After a popular girl loses a poetry contest to an outcast, they develop an unexpected interest in each other – but is their young love meant to...

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he...