Poem Movies

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

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

A film by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen, based on the poem "Girl on the escalator" by Charles Bukowski.

A short poetry film about A Day in the Life of a Bench and the various types of people who visit it throughout the day.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

An interpretive visual to accompany the spoken word poem by Nikki Lorenzo, shot in one day on a hiking trail in Malibu, California.

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

A storm is on the horizon. When a jet-black cloud engulfs a small village, the residents discover that it could put an end to more than just blue...

A vertical film about self-love in the times of liquid love. A film based on a poem by Isadora Tricerri about freedom and the difficulties of being...

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial...

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

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

1939 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi.

Poem in a frame.

A narrative poem brought to life and an ode to a grandfather's passing, NAMOO—which translates to “tree” in Korean—follows...