Poetry Movies

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

An invitation to listen to someone who uses words to explore the interaction between man and modern times. In her mountain hut in Ciaminades, in Val...

Rumination at the fairground by night has our narrator contemplating desire, human nature, sexual freedom, dreams, past romances and self-discovery....

A short student film about life through the eyes of an assassin stalking his prey, using the poem The Tyger by William Blake.

Dedicated to the poet Paul Celan, the film traces the itinerary of the deportation of Jews from Czernowitz and Bucovina to Mikhailovka camp on the...

Documentary discussing expectations in sexual and intimate situations, by blending people's anonymous stories, poetry and dance.

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one of the great French writers and...

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was...

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,...

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

Wahdat-ul-Wujood explores the concept of oneness and the human journey through separation, conflict, and return. Inspired by the philosophy of Wahdat...

A short video adaptation of the poem "River: Morning" by Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma. Part of the Visible Poetry Project.

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

Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.

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...

An elegy about ‘José Ð Almeida’s life and work. Along an intimate metamorphosis, this dreamlike and visually expressive world...

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

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...