Poetry Movies

#poetry explores how poets have used Instagram to share their poetry with their readers, the backlash against online creators, how the platform has...

A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning...

As the day begins, a woman sets out to go about her routine, until she decides to take her children to the cemetery to see zombies. When she returns...

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...

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...

A young man pretends to sleep while he watches his lover go through her morning routine.

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

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

Four Poems is a series of video poems in which the horizontal lines of a poem, usually composed of text, have been substituted for horizontal lines...

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...

Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the great novels of world literature. The documentary immerses itself in the very own cosmos,...

Follow blind poet Paiv as he navigates a sighted world, finding solace through his art.

A girl reads and discusses about 20 poems.

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small...

Third film of Juan José Ponce's trilogy about Federico García Lorca.

The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...