Poem Movies

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 ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...

video art about growing up and the longing for childhood available on YouTube

Based loosely on a true story. Grieving his father, Mark is determined to power on and build his future, transforming his pain into song. In Loving...

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in...

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’...

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

A short film written by Hussain Manawer about 2020 and mental health.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.

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

CATS, SEA, FISHERMEN AND SUNSET. The sequel to the original Love Poems. A short documentary Film capturing beautiful shots in the City of...

A poem about a person with jelly for a head.

This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the...

Gendhis was cleaning her house while accompanied by guests who came every day, but she was still waiting. She found many items given by the guests,...

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial...

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

A modern reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."

1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi about the romantic...