Poetry Movies

This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.

Set in the lake country of Northern Minnesota, Cry of the Loon is a lyrical mediation on life, death, and the beauty of the natural world.

A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet,...

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...

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

A documentary on the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer winner, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin.

Martin (Joe Newton) is a casualty of society. He is under appreciated and overworked as a salary man in the city. With mounting pressure on his...

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

In this short film, poet and holocaust survivor John Guzlowski bears witness to his parents’ survival of Nazi slave labor camps. More than a...

A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.

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

A young man grows up with the sound of wind through the forest and sunlight that never rushes. But today, he must step into a city that waits for no...

Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance starts to take place in her adolescence.

A child runs into the woods in an attempt to escape Evil.

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

Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", avant-garde poet and playwright Christopher...

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.