Poetry Movies

Observing as the World Burns: Poems is an evocative, introspective short film that transforms lines of verse into raw visual poetry—confronting...

Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision.

An evocative animated film on the life and works of the great Kyrgyz poet Alykul Osmonov.

Since 1985, poets, songwriters and musicians have gathered at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada.

An experimental short told solely via emojis and poetry.

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

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded...

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's...

A nameless protagonist reconciles with his existential dread as he arrives at a lighthouse, a physical manifestation of all that he searched for.As a...

After his parents' death in a traffic accident, Ibrahim decides to go to their summer house, where he goes every summer with his family, alone this...

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

Three short experimental video lyrics based on the classical figure.

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism...

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

Water Poem is an experimental documentary short film in which a Vietnamese trans man recites a poem as images drift and shift beneath words, in an...

This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments...