Poetry Movies

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

Follow blind poet Paiv as he navigates a sighted world, finding solace through his art.

Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.

A collaborative film created during Lockdown in response to the political landscape and the work of Daisaku Ikeda.

Documentary film about the great forgotten of Chilean literature. With interviews with family members, poets and artists who knew him, this feature...

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is...

A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.

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

Award winning documentary by Joslyn Rose Lyons exploring the relationship between spiritual connection and the creative process in hip-hop music.

A nameless protagonist reconciles with his existential dread as he arrives at a lighthouse, a physical manifestation of all that he searched for.As a...

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...

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the...

The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

sucking on words is a documentary film that features interviews with, and extensive performances by, the American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It also...

Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat...

How have one poet and his single book of poetry from the last century continued to inspire people today? A Life That Sings follows the legendary poet...