Do You Fit In With The West?: A Poetry

A young man explores the culture of western individuality, conformity, while embarking on a search for authenticity.

Missing Poetry

In 1937, most members of the Belarusian intelligentsia, including poets, were shot dead in Minsk on a "legal" basis. A few years later, their names were rehabilitated. However, despite this, most of them are still forgot

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Poem of the Young Hearts

An independently produced documentary about growing up as a blind youth in 1960's Japan. It focuses on a group of elementary level students being taught by Mr. Kawai at the Zoshigaya Branch of Tokyo Educational Universit

Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a gravedigger and a war poet. At 66 years old he was then diagnosed with autism, a

Painter and Poet No. 2

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s T

Mélodies perdues - Une incursion des Ballets Jazz Montréal dans l’univers poétique de Patrick Watson

Portrait de ma mère poète

Intimate portrait of Marie-Jo Gobron, belgian poet and the director's mother. 20 years after the release of a film about his father's paintings, the filmmaker continues the description of the artistic universe of his par

Poets on Film No. 2

This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travellers Palm” by P.K. Page, “Death by Streetcar” by Raymond Souster, and “A Sa

A Poem for The One Who Left

A young man keeps on coming back and searching for his loved-one at the place where they last met.

Beat: The Performance Poetry of Chasen Gaver

Documents the innovative ways in which Washington writer/poet Chasen Gaver uses movement, percussion and other performance elements to enhance the delivery of verse. He uses this form of poetry to raise questions about o

Painkiller

A young woman with chronic migraine experiences the shifting stages of an attack; Prodrome; Aura; Attack; Postdrome. Painkiller is based on the animator’s lived experience, told through hand drawn animation utilising a c

Henry Miller, poète maudit

Cannes Film Festival 1974

Poema para ser grabado en un disco de fonógrafo

An animated tribute to the singer-songwriter Eduardo Darnauchans and the poem narrated by himself

The Poet and the Tsar

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin

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The Merchant and the Poet

A small Belarusian town, where Olga, a vivacious and able to stand up for herself and her daughter, lived, was occupied by the Germans. It was she who was approached by the underground with a request to ransom a man from

Akai Ghost Poems

A compilation of video footage from the Yellow House, Potts Point, Sydney, July 1971.

The Poet

The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of suspected communists by the Indonesian government that cost between 500

Kery James : Le poète noir et ses invités