Poetry Movies

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower...

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism...

Official video for Andrea Gibson's powerful poem about queer identity, "Your Life."

This short film offers a picturesque tour through the maple-wooded hills alongside Québec's Lièvre River in autumn to the accompaniment...

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

Since ancient times, the Green Man has been one of the most mysterious and menacing of mythical characters. He also has a familiar...

A dramatic recreation of Dylan Thomas' last tour of America, starring actor Bob Kingdom as the Welsh poet. Originally a successful stage production,...

Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a...

Animation inspired by the poem “The Infinite” by Giacomo Leopardi.

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

A short film, based on a series of poems, about childhood, the break with parental, and war.

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art...

A film about the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla and his creative poetic process, his struggle to find an honest language, one which adheres to the...

TV documentary film about the life of New Zealand poet James K. Baxter.

A young poet grapples with his decision to leave society during the end of the world.

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