Poetry Movies

A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet...

The film tells the story of Alejandra Pizarnik: mythic Argentine poet who committed suicide at the age of 36. Her personal diaries, letters, poems,...

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

A girl reads and discusses about 20 poems.

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

In a desperate conflict with his own thoughts, a man tries to find a way to express his feelings to the girl he likes through his mind.

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.

A short poetic narrative about dealing with separation. Told in French and presented to English audiences without subtitles to leave the characters'...

Tells the story a woman's life (and death) through poetry and symbolism.

About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis,...

"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of...

Love Boom Bap is a genre-defying short film. It features no dialogue and takes the audience on a journey of self-discovery through the music and...

A young dromedary attends its first conference. Its happiness is going to turn into deep disappointment.

In this surrealist vignette-based film, a goldfish makes conversation with various objects. A TV becomes a writer, a triangle learns it is not a...

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...

Conversations with four people — an artist, a woman struggling with her identity as a high achiever, an actor, and a priest — exploring...

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.