Poetry Movies

  • 2010
    Pablo de Rokha: El Amigo Piedra

    Pablo de Rokha: El Amigo Piedra

    Pablo de Rokha: El Amigo Piedra

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    Documentary film about the great forgotten of Chilean literature. With interviews with family members, poets and artists who knew him, this feature...

    Pablo de Rokha: El Amigo Piedra
  • 1970
    Lifelines

    Lifelines

    Lifelines

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    Switching between their surreal perspectives, two high school students who can’t determine the border of fiction and reality battle their...

    Lifelines
  • 1954
    Poems Are Fun

    Poems Are Fun

    Poems Are Fun

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    Shows that poems can be written about many subjects. Points out that choral speaking and impromptu composition can increase the enjoyment of poems.

    Poems Are Fun
  • 1970
    To Hold My Love

    To Hold My Love

    To Hold My Love

    01970HD

    To Hold My Love is a short film merging dance, fashion, and spoken words. Through their bodies and their language, the five dancers pull the viewers...

    To Hold My Love
  • 1999
    Figures

    Figures

    Figures

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    Three short experimental video lyrics based on the classical figure.

    Figures
  • 1995
    Vivat Hollý

    Vivat Hollý

    Vivat Hollý

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    Vivat Hollý
  • 2005
    Poetry is Child's Play

    Poetry is Child's Play

    Poetry is Child's Play

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    A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.

    Poetry is Child's Play
  • 1987
    Robert Lax: Word & Image

    Robert Lax: Word & Image

    Robert Lax: Word & Image

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    When Robert Lax was approached in the early 1980s about doing a video documentary on him, he had only one condition—that it be focused on his...

    Robert Lax: Word & Image
  • 1970
    M'es en abyme

    M'es en abyme

    M'es en abyme

    01970HD

    A collage of images and voices of women poets that succeeds brilliantly, both as a tribute to the women whose words are borrowed and as an original...

    M'es en abyme
  • 1970
    The Paul Molinar Show (Special Edition)

    The Paul Molinar Show (Special Edition)

    The Paul Molinar Show (Special Edition)

    01970HD

    In his debut feature-length film, poet and author Paul Molinar offers an exciting assortment of musical performances, poetry recitations, and serious...

    The Paul Molinar Show (Special Edition)
  • 1988
    The Bitter Berry: The Life and Work of Byron Herbert Reece

    The Bitter Berry: The Life and Work of Byron Herbert Reece

    The Bitter Berry: The Life and Work of Byron Herbert Reece

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    A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece.

    The Bitter Berry: The Life and Work of Byron Herbert Reece
  • 1970
    The Story of Everything

    The Story of Everything

    The Story of Everything

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    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 Story of Everything
  • 1970
    Planet Poetica & the City of Dreams

    Planet Poetica & the City of Dreams

    Planet Poetica & the City of Dreams

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    A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!

    Planet Poetica & the City of Dreams
  • 1970
    Mirrors

    Mirrors

    Mirrors

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    In a bland and lonesome reality of everyday life, Lomo discovers a portal to an alternate universe. Trying to find her way back home, she stumbles...

    Mirrors
  • 1970
    Don't Take Harlem

    Don't Take Harlem

    Don't Take Harlem

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    “Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and...

    Don't Take Harlem
  • 1970
    Robert Frost's The Death of a Hired Man

    Robert Frost's The Death of a Hired Man

    Robert Frost's The Death of a Hired Man

    01970HD

    A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.

    Robert Frost's The Death of a Hired Man
  • 1970
    Drowning Moon

    Drowning Moon

    Drowning Moon

    01970HD

    A short poem written by the director's uncle during her childhood is illustrated in a vision of bright nocturnal memory.

    Drowning Moon
  • 2015
    Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion

    Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion

    Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion

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    This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. ...

    Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion
  • 1971
    La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970

    La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970

    La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970

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    La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970
  • 1970
    Eyes

    Eyes

    Eyes

    01970HD

    Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's...

    Eyes