Poetry Movies

A poetic text foretelling a death. An elderly Paraguayan woman—a fortune-teller and prostitute living in the seaside town of...

The brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt when he died at age 49. Is self-destruction required for a...

An audiovisual letter that connects an imagined Kyrgyzstan with the filmmaker’s inner world, blending personal illness, memory, and political...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

This short documentary features poet N Rengarajan, a migrant worker from Pudukkottai, India who sustains a practice of poetry as a way of life while...

Self-absorbed artist Jenny voices her grievances with the world and the people around her as she enters a series of poetry competitions.

"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of...

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the...

In this video, the narrator tells childhood stories of when his house burned down; a visit to the circus; his first love. After each story, he sings...

The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time,...

Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts...

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

Swimming Lessons is a machinima film unfolding within Google Maps. Through confessional verse, the narrator maps the sites of a former relationship...

This documentary shows the life and work of the Galician poet from O Courel, Uxío Novoneyra, from a double perspective: the intimate and...

A young filmmaker struggles with her mental illness as she makes a documentary with the author Fiona Wright, and challenges her to express her...

This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over...

Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed...