Poetry Movies

During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a...

Movie A mash-up about contemporary oral poetry, that shows and dismantle the machine that builds the current Buenos Aires underground. A fundamental...

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug...

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy...

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose...

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

A Thousand Years of Joy charts poet/activist Robert Bly's journey from Midwestern farm boy to global troubadour, bestselling author of Iron John and...

A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

This film documents the 1990 World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout between Ann Waldman and Victor Hernandez Cruz.

After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for...

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of...

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period...

A short portrait of poet Bert Schierbeek, who reads from his poetry.

The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the...

When Tess Kelley realizes her daughter Jenny Kelley still isn't over her divorce from musician Rick Meadows, the irresponsible, ever-absent father of...

Beneath the harvest sun and the cicada song, Mónica Martins Nunes builds a touching portrait of Serra de Serpa, an arid region in the south of...