Poetry Movies

Light dramatisation of four poems by poet laureete Sir John Betjeman, set on location in the south of England

A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her...

This film documents the 1990 World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout between Ann Waldman and Victor Hernandez Cruz.

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...

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,...

A poetry film that tells the story of a man struggling with his deteriorating mental state and self-destruction.

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and...

Absorbed in his thoughts, an artist is trapped behind his chaotic world.

James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small...

A visual poetry short film, inspired by and featuring the poem "Knickknacks" by Tuesday Taylor York.

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.

La orilla que se Abisma is conceived as a journey, a trip along a river. Like rivers, like all journeys, the film has meanders, small riverbeds,...

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think...

Inspired by the untold personal story of the 19th-century Chinese poet and revolutionary Qiu Jin, Wu Tsang brings to life, subverts, and re-enacts...

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.