The Slam Poet

A man only known as "The Poet" retells the story of his spiraling slam poetry career after something catastrophic happens to him during Poetfest.

Keris Poesaka

Lament Poems for Neptune Ave

Short film from Sage Ó Tuama.

Jazz and Poetry

Short film documenting a performance by poet Ted Jones in combination with music by the Peter Kuiters Modern Jazz Group.

Poems for an Aeolian Harp or Paintings for the wind

A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Animated Poetry with Neely Goniodsky, set to Seattle Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai’s poem Poems for an Aeolian Harp.

Painter and Poet No. 3

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of Britain did have more shade than light. But the mood in this episode is positively b

Odawara City, Where Poetries are Made

As the cherry blossoms bloom in splendor during springtime, Ibuki, an art student living in Tokyo, visits Odawara city with her father. This is their first trip together since Ibuki left home. Odawara was once a memorabl

Poetry of Witness

Through the interviews of poets and scholars, this documentary sheds light upon those who have chosen poetry to preserve the memories of war, torture, exile, and repression.

Léonce poète

Leonce Perret tries to kill himself. After he fails, he decides to pour out his agony on paper. However, he broke an arm in trying to end his life. So he hires a pretty, sympathetic secretary, and matters take their cour

Kodachrome Love Poem

A Mere Grain of Nothing My Death: A Life in Poetry - Ingrid Jonker

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little daughter and an oeuvre of three laurelled collections of poems. Jonker'

Nathan Joe: Homecoming Poems

In this meditation on the vast lived experiences between Christchurch and Auckland, between queerness and being Chinese-Kiwi, and between homeland and hometown, poet Nathan Joe explores the form of autobiography through

The Poet

It was an entirely routine case: at four in the morning a car had run over a drunk old woman and left. And now the young Trainee Detective Mejzlík was trying to find out which car it was. A trainee inspector takes that v

César Vallejo, el poeta del Bicentenario

This documentary began within the framework of Peru's Bicentennial celebrations, under the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic, which allowed the author to dedicate himself to reading, especially the poetry of our uni

The Sons of Captain Poetry

"Canada's convention-shattering voice of poetry" (Globe and Mail). Michael Ondaatje documents the work and spirit of fellow poet bpNichol (1944-1988) Capturing the artist / writer / sound performer in "fantasy document

BARBICAN | Urban Poetry

The Barbican Estate in the City of London is arguably England's finest example of Brutalist architecture. This film explores the history of the estate from the perspective of its residents

The Poetics of Fragility

The Poetics of Fragility is a narrative and optical exploration of the texture, vitality and aesthetics of fragility that interweaves story, poetry and critical inquiry to reclaim fragility as intrinsic to nature and hum

UTOPIA. The Poetics of Borders: Berlin – Nicosia

The beginning. A one-take shot, images of Famagusta, as Pyrros Theofanopoulos recites the text of Niki Marangou, while the gaze of Niovi Charalambous describes the dead city. Composing images and secret connotations that

Poem and Stone

A film skirting the edge of performance, documentary, and poetry, explores the question of human memory through the combination of a variety of abstract and symbolic motifs. It refers to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost

Just Poems (About Drugs)

Sudds’s Just Poems (About Drugs) depicts long-time members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), an organization Osborn helped create in the early 2000s, as they browse the poet’s archived notebooks at Sim