Poetry Movies

An unlikely encounter between a strange bird who lives in deep water and Lena, a little urban girl.

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,...

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending...

If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...

The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time,...

The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...

A young dromedary attends its first conference. Its happiness is going to turn into deep disappointment.

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the...

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think...

Poetry, erotic imagery, and Pasolini’s words come together in a fragmented exploration of gay desire and the politics of the body. Navigating...

Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.

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

Presents a portrait of Ted Rosenthal, a poet who has been told that he has six months to live. He discusses how he faces death and reads poems that...

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems...

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.