Poetry Movies

A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of...

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning...

The film is an unusual portrait of Slovak poet Jozef Urban who tragically died. Nevertheless, his short life was enough for his work to influence...

Two friends, two Viennese, two poets, two unusual women. They have known each other for 30 years. Elfriede Jelinek is the better known of the two,...

Forced into quarantine for 10 days upon arrival in Rome, an exchange student’s journey into processing the past comes to a sudden stop, as he...

Set in the lake country of Northern Minnesota, Cry of the Loon is a lyrical mediation on life, death, and the beauty of the natural world.

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 video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.

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

Smoky little clubs, late nights, late nights of conversation over a glass of beer and a guitar. The lyricist Géza Bereményi and the...

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

A mini documentary about küçük İskender and his views on poetry.

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little...

In a sarcastic mood, EZTV's founder John Dorr makes fun of the extensive aspiring Los Angeles spoken word scene of the 1980s and the enormous number...

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.