Death of a Poet
A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria, Canada to visit Stan. Five weeks later while I was in Boulder, Colorado t
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A document from the weeks that Stan Brakhage was dying of bladder cancer. Dominic Angerame, then head of Canyon Cinema, and I went up to Victoria, Canada to visit Stan. Five weeks later while I was in Boulder, Colorado t
A film about the making of the album "Loyalty Does Not End With Death" by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Carl Abrahamsson.
An experimental visual poem combining film, animation, photography, and archival footage inviting people to occupy the Black Body and examine the lived Black experience for a brief moment.
Film on the recording of Peter Doherty's and Frédéric Lo's 2021 album "The Fantasy Life of Poetry and Crime" in Doherty's Normandy home.
The phenomenon of Brazilian oral literature with a study on cordel literature and popular singing.
Filmed between 2000 and 2006, this new documentary includes principal actors and crew members remembering the filming of Sam Peckinpah's 1964 film Major Dundee. The troubled production in Mexico soon had become the conte
A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning ‘day of Tiw’ (the Norse god of law)). More info here: https://en.tuespedia.org/wi
Argo Okk's documentary looks at Estonia in 2008.
In a future society where only happiness and unqualified admiration for beauty are permitted, a man devotes himself to producing the elixir of youth: tears. Crying is forbidden, and he finds himself hunted down by a doct
At the crossroads of Black literary consciousness and political struggle, the ideas of Claude McKay, Jamaican poet and novelist, laid the foundations for major literary movements, including Négritude. Proudly wandering,
Al Khadra is a renowned Sahrawi war poetess living in the al-Auin camp in the Algerian desert. A vivid testament to 30 years of the Sahara conflict, we see how she keeps her oral poetry alive and tries to pass on her act
Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda Torres, Marilia Pera, Antonio Cicero and others.
"CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1)" is the first installment in a five-part project of experimental and hybrid-form short films contemplating a second American civil war via lyrical nonfiction, mixing call-in radio,
Three Tales. Three Lives. Three Love Stories. One Common Muse. Cinema.
Four Poems is a series of video poems in which the horizontal lines of a poem, usually composed of text, have been substituted for horizontal lines of moving image. The piece explores what remains of a poem when its lang
Preschool Poets is a series of eight short animated films based on poems composed by four and five year olds. In this film, Delanie imagines a world locked in routine. Parents work two jobs. They can’t come home because