Poetry Movies

Hilmano van Velzen, the "Homeless Poet" wants nothing more than to become famous with his poetry. But his addiction and character get in the way.

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

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

Using a small, portable HD video recorder, the artist creates a self portrait that captures his confrontation with foreign people, places and...

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

In his debut feature-length film, poet and author Paul Molinar offers an exciting assortment of musical performances, poetry recitations, and serious...

An elderly woman finds out by the rumors of her friends that a teenager in her neighborhood has been kicked out of her home for being a lesbian. This...

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

In Espectro the viewer embarks on a journey that enters the dreams and thoughts of the filmmaker, exploring the nuances of image, archive, and...

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

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

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

"I thought of all those gloves I see here and there on the street and it's like they're waiting for someone to turn around, look for them, take them...

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

In a bland and lonesome reality of everyday life, Lomo discovers a portal to an alternate universe. Trying to find her way back home, she stumbles...

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

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