Lunch Poems (Remix)

In Lunch Poems (Remix), J dusts off VHS tapes recorded in 2017 with their friend and collaborator Miss Expanding Universe (Ashley Yang-Thompson). They remix them into a fiery manifesto and intimate video diary — a collag

Family Crypt – A Love Poem to My Mother

A portrait of Maria Lang's mother, which is also a family portrait of the filmmaker. The film shows an excerpt from the Lang family's everyday life. It follows the parents as they go about their daily chores and small ri

Shadow Sister: a Film Biography of Australian Aboriginal Poet Kath Walker

This documentary shows the well-known Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) living on Stradbroke Island, Queensland, the place that was once the home of her native tribe. She welcomes visitors, particularly Ab

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence

Can poetry bring the dead back to life? Follow contemporary poets as they perform and examine the role of art in responding to the Holocaust and genocide.

Poetin's Mama

Gustave Roud, poète vaudois

Pointing to the Sun and Laughing (On a Stack of Poems)

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.

Poet on a Business Trip

In 2002, Ju Anqi made a film about a tour by the poet Shu through Xinjiang, the most western-lying, autonomous Uyghur province of China. All that we know about Shu is that he plays a poet who sends himself on a business

The Happy Poet

When Bill, the title character, secures a very small loan to start his dream business--a health food stand--his struggles as an idealistic micro-business owner begin.

POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR "DAYS OF THE WEEK"

A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Risograph Animated Poetry Workshop with Zine Hug, set to Dao Strom’s poem “POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR ‘DAYS OF THE WEEK’”. This poem was originally publis

A Poet on the Frontline: The Reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski

A POET ON THE FRONTLINE will introduce audiences to the world of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the famous daredevil war correspondent and one of the world's most important contemporary literary figures. Known as "Indiana Jones wi

René Depestre, poète haïtien

Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René Depestre.

The Spring Poem

Petra, a young single mother, after divorce and her father's death, tries to free herself and live her life in spite of everyone, looking for the Right One.

Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers

Linked Poem (A Series of Poems)

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada.

El jardín de los poetas

7x7 Facts About the Life of the Poet Tohm di Roes in Present Climes

Snapshots from the life of the eccentric Tohm di Roes, who angrily shouts against the philistines with the wild gesture of punk.

The Poets

THE POETS is a documentary that follows two acclaimed West African poets, and lifelong friends, Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare as they travel through their home countries of Sierra Leone and Nigeria to explore what h

Ramuz, passage d'un poète

A Ferlinghetti Poem

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An Animation Workshop film that visualizes the beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "The World is a Beautiful Place" by melding collage and ce