Meetings with a Young Poet

A young poet, Paul Susser (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais), meets his master, the great author Samuel Beckett (Stephen McHattie), in a small café. The two men initiate a complex friendship that spans the last two decades of Beck

USA: Poetry: Louis Zukofsky

Born in 1904, and first published by Ezra Pound in 1927, Louis Zukosky is the poet whose name is associated with the term objectivists. Although never widely known as a poet, his work as well as his writings on poetry ha

Poem About All Different Things

In this film, Samuel knows that the bumpiest thing is ten thousand hundred frogs on a trampoline. The ugliest? An ugly person in your face, and the loneliest -- crying in your house with no friends.

Thief and a Poet

Birth of a Poet

Birth of a Poet is a dramatic short film that captures the moment Stephen Dobyns transitions from a disillusioned journalist to an emerging poet. It is adapted from autobiographical poems.

Rumi: Poet of the Heart

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, b

Baseball Mad Poem - Northern Wolf, South Tiger

A theatrical version of episodes 13 and 14 of the TV series. Against her insistence, Yuuki is drafted by the Tokyo Mets as the first woman player in the baseball league.

Poetry on Film

Poetry on Film is a moving image commissioning project for young and emerging Hong Kong filmmakers, motivated by the belief that poetry possesses an inherent cinematic quality. Its rhythmic cadence, vivid imagery, and em

Kitka - a poem in living water

Follia come poesia

Two years together by Le Nemesiache with the psychiatric patients of the former 'Frullone' hospital in Naples. This experience of music and dance had a profound impact on those who took part in it. This film is a testimo

Poetry Syndrome

Jimin and Hyunsang hold their poetry club meeting in the park. Whether driven by the poem's content or by their increasingly discordant feelings, the two start behaving strangely.

L'Étonnante Épopée des poètes en campagne

Poet and Peasant Overture

A rendition of the Poet and Peasant Overture by the MGM Orchestra

A Poem for Little People

Through its two parallel plotlines, the film follows the exploits of a volunteer evacuation team in the front lines of Eastern Ukraine, led by young, precociously stoic Anton, as well as the wartime daily lives and unlik

Your Very Personal Poetry

This poetic core in youngsters is also touched in Stanukina's less known Your very personal poetry (Свои, совсем особые стихи, 1982), a wonderful film about a poetry class. It is here that one recalls Kogan's admiration

A poeta analfabeta

Billie, Jasmine and the Poet

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

Poetry Night

On this chaotic night in Brooklyn, a group of young artists collide into a web of desire, insecurity, and performance, forcing each to confront their ambitions, relationships and truths- both onstage and off.

The River - Poem of Wrath

A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.

Chronique de la nuit de la poésie 1970