Poetry Movies

A video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.

Set in the lake country of Northern Minnesota, Cry of the Loon is a lyrical mediation on life, death, and the beauty of the natural world.

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,...

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...

In Busto of a poet, the word is the real protagonist: the verses, reflections and texts of José Ángel Valente take shape through the...

Smoky little clubs, late nights, late nights of conversation over a glass of beer and a guitar. The lyricist Géza Bereményi and the...

Switching between their surreal perspectives, two high school students who can’t determine the border of fiction and reality battle their...

Shows that poems can be written about many subjects. Points out that choral speaking and impromptu composition can increase the enjoyment of poems.

To Hold My Love is a short film merging dance, fashion, and spoken words. Through their bodies and their language, the five dancers pull the viewers...

Three short experimental video lyrics based on the classical figure.

A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.

When Robert Lax was approached in the early 1980s about doing a video documentary on him, he had only one condition—that it be focused on his...

A collage of images and voices of women poets that succeeds brilliantly, both as a tribute to the women whose words are borrowed and as an original...

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

A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece.

A creation story in epic poem format that traces our origins from the big bang to now, using science, poetry, storytelling, visual art, music, 'oli...

A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!

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...