Poetry Movies

Filmmaker Tegan Pearce combines autobiographical spoken word and expressive visual direction to present a cinematic interpretation of autism.

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.

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

Ozymandias recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. Selected AI-generated images and text-to-speech narration - with their vutlure-like...

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

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

A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.

Adapted from a poem by the director’s mother, "Baisure" in French can be translated as "Kissing Loaves,” the exact place where two loaves...

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

Various clips of jellyfish accompanied by the narration of two poems concerning a deity's lover.

A woman cuts off her braids and finds relief in her natural hair.

A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping freight trains across the country. Shot over the summer of 2013 on...

A video adaptation of Shannon Sankey's poem Infusions. Readings of the poem are combined with old commercials and home video-styled clips depicting...

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...

Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past...

FOR KAPISIGA PAUL LYONS is dedicated to the beloved and dearly missed University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English professor Paul Lyons...

A poetic text foretelling a death. An elderly Paraguayan woman—a fortune-teller and prostitute living in the seaside town of...