Poetry Movies

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009),Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human bipolar mixture of genius and madman. Invited to...

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

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 i...

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 creative...

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 vi...

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 [c...

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 upo...

“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and the stories th...

A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.

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

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. Deargdhúil: An...

Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's sp...