Poem Movies

An exploration of the complex, deepening relationship between humans and their surroundings as civilizations succumb to the relentless natural world.

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...

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

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in...

Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.

Alma, a beautiful girl who didn’t get the chance to hear how chaos the world is since she was born. Her mother then bought a hearing device for...

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

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

A haiku about a window and a woman.

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

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

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

From his book, Les Fleurs du Mal, an adaptation of Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem, Une Charogne.

In I Want You To Pause This, three registers (sound, image, text) happen at the same time. Since the centre of attention is constantly deferred, the...

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.

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

You are alive like they are.