Poem Movies

a poem. trees. fragments of fritz. love—and nothing besides!

An exploration of love and loss in Paris.

Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the...

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 film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation...

We all carry our leaves, some of winter, some of spring and summer. But all leaves grow, breathe and wither with time; and so do we.

A single tree that has witnessed events, a girl who loves Forough, and a boy who reads Sohrab.

A modern reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

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

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....

From the music of Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio, English filmmaker Terence Davies does a cinematic reading of his own poem about his late...

A haiku about a window and a woman.

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and...

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

Video poem about New Hampshire and its foliage in Autumn

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?