Poetics of the Garden

I try to remember what your hand felt like on my back when I was a child. And now I place my hand on yours, bent from pain. Like landscaped gardens are meant to evoke the four seasons and the cyclical wonders of nature,

Terre Rouge - Topographie du poète

Gaston Rollinger, an elderly poet and film-maker, lives alone in his childhood home in the astonishing landscape of Esch-sur-Alzette, a very special place where industrial relics meet wild nature. He draws all his inspir

Giorgos Seferis: Poet and Citizen. A Journey in Space and Time

A vast photographic archive –like a long journey through the 20th century– featuring documents from the life of Giorgos Seferis, period materials from around the world, and records from the places the poet traveled.

Dust Poetry

Engrossing combination of 16mm frames with house dust collected by Nan Wang and film clips of insects and plants. The beauty of tiny, surplus materials digitally processed and edited into a hallucinogenic trip. Pulsating

Uxío Novoneyra: Poeta/Alén

This documentary shows the life and work of the Galician poet from O Courel, Uxío Novoneyra, from a double perspective: the intimate and familiar analysis of his work, both poetic and artistic, and that of his ideologica

Konstantin Wecker: Poesie und Widerstand

Paco Urondo: el poeta y sus armas

The documentary narrates the life and work of the militant poet and journalist Paco Urondo who was assassinated by the military dictatorship in 1976

the sad poet

A sad man falls in love with a sad poet through just her poetry, disrupting his long-term relationship and changing his perspective of what's real.

Poetry on Land

There are people in charge of managing someone’s front yard or the tomb, the branches of Han River, Seonyudo Park, and even restoring the damaged environment due to the forest fire in Goseong, Gangwon-do. They are landsc

Poema para ser leído bajo el agua

Short film by Diego Rísquez.

Un buen suicida es un mal poeta

Like a Monster: a video poem in 5 parts

Vintage filmstrips and projectors were widely used in classrooms during the 1960s and 1970s as educational tools. A filmstrip is a 35mm roll of still images that advances manually through a projector, often accompanied b

Mi poesía soy yo.

100 years after the birth of Idea Vilariño we review the life, work and validity of one of the most attractive poets in our literature. Her wisdom and the beauty of her work, the historical and cultural moment in which s

Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

Poem B (The Guest House)

In this artwork, we witness the residue of a life through the objects and structures that surround a solitary older woman: color and black-and-white video triptych on LCD flat panels mounted on wall, 35.5 x 200 x 6 cm.

A Poem Thorn (Part I)

The Cat

Johan van der Keuken explains, "Some fifteen filmmakers were asked to make a film series in a relay style for a very popular variety program on Dutch television: each new program was to start from the last image of the p

Poems – A Journey Through Icelandic Poetry

We follow Icelandic composer Viktor Orri Árnason and soprano Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir on a musical road-trip through Iceland, where they set out to discover more about the poetry that inspired their latest album

Un Trip: raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation

A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the words of “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” by raúlrsalinas, written in 1969 in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. The 25-minute short explores the lived experience of the

Poet's Soul in the Cold Moonlight

When cloth merchant Zhao Dexin passed through the ancient tomb, he met the scholar Qin Qiufan and the girl Hua Hongyu in the underworld. Qiufan was killed by robbers on the way to Beijing, and his body was thrown into Ho