Poem Movies

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

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...

Gendhis was cleaning her house while accompanied by guests who came every day, but she was still waiting. She found many items given by the guests,...

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

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

You are alive like they are.

A spoken word piece about an autistic person experiencing sensory overload in a world that rejects their existence.

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...

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

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

The experiences of five free-spirited individuals trying to break free from societal norms. Each narrative discusses creativity, mental health, labor...

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

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 short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”