Poetry Movies

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes a...

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

This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the de...

The Grove is the second part of Lawrence Jordan's H.D. Trilogy. It continues what began with THE BLACK OUD (again featuring Joanna McClure as the cata...

When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow...

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being for...

Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary C...

A lone wind ensemble musician photographs an ongoing performance as she's suddenly joined by a past lover.

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and...

Erwin Romulo, the late Alexis Tioseco’s best friend, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s untimely death in their home...

"A Brutalist film-poem about the nature of a family tree and the macabre ancestral tales that work their way into your identity, whether you like it o...

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was one of the leaders of the marginal poetry movement....

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is n...

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

A dreamlike cinematic poem about a family. A boy runs an errand for his mother and realizes that she is dying. A man attends the funeral of a former l...