Poem Movies

From his book, Les Fleurs du Mal, an adaptation of Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem, Une Charogne.

Observing as the World Burns: Poems is an evocative, introspective short film that transforms lines of verse into raw visual poetry—confronting...

Hand-processed, in-camera edited 16 mm footage of a desolated Italian beach meets four poems by Jeannette Hunziker, evoking loss, memory, and the...

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

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...

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.

In I Want You To Pause This, three registers (sound, image, text) happen at the same time. Since the centre of attention is constantly deferred, the...

Alma, a beautiful girl who didn’t get the chance to hear how chaos the world is since she was born. Her mother then bought a hearing device for...

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

The main morality is the chronic desire for rest Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and the bread Which once was dough front to back ...

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.

Video poem for SPAM Zine 004

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....