Poem Movies

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

Based on the poem "I Will Love the 21st Century" by Mark Strand

A vertical film about self-love in the times of liquid love. A film based on a poem by Isadora Tricerri about freedom and the difficulties of being...

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a...

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the...

Letter to Celestial is a re-animation and re-imagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montréal's...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

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

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

Hand-processed, in-camera edited 16 mm footage of a desolated Italian beach meets four poems by Jeannette Hunziker, evoking loss, memory, and the...

An expression of time and memories.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

Video poem based on The Last Dragon by Radu Stanca.

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.