Poetry Movies

An elegy about ‘José Ð Almeida’s life and work. Along an intimate metamorphosis, this dreamlike and visually expressive world...

After nearly three years living in Japan, Fergus Gregg finds himself struggling to bid farewell to this beautiful country. On a journey tracing the...

In Song of Myself (Section 51) we meet Thomas Michael Smith- a retired social worker, sign language interpreter, openly gay deacon in the Catholic...

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...

A poem about mania written by Omar Zefier. His second film.

Three spoken word poets and event organizers based in Dublin - Melissa Ridge, Hazel Hogan and Kasey Shelley - reveal the positive impact poetry has...

In 2002, Ju Anqi made a film about a tour by the poet Shu through Xinjiang, the most western-lying, autonomous Uyghur province of China. All that we...

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

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

Through meticulous cut-up, collaging and stop motion, Nico Vassilakis makes words dance across the screen, moving our eyes in all different...

"The Rustic Poet" follows Isaias Riquelme, an 89-year-old poet from the Araucanía region, Chile, in a journey through his life story, highs...

Eden, an avid reader, meets Florence, a poet, and over the course of an evening spent together their connection quickly becomes all-consuming....

A short poem written by the director's uncle during her childhood is illustrated in a vision of bright nocturnal memory.

A short student film about life through the eyes of an assassin stalking his prey, using the poem The Tyger by William Blake.

FOR KAPISIGA PAUL LYONS is dedicated to the beloved and dearly missed University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English professor Paul Lyons...

Denim' is a poetic short film by writer, poet and performer Siana Bangura, exploring gentrification and social cleansing in South East London....