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As the 'slant of light' comes and goes in a Massachusetts studio c. 1850, Emily summons up an English poet from an earlier age. Her playful vision of love and life ends in the unique photograph of Dickinson that survives
American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history. Cowboy Poets travels
As long as Abraham Sutskever lived, he wouldn't let a film about his life be made. Today, eight years after his passing, Black Honey tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. Sutskever led
Miha, a poet whom no one takes seriously, earns his living by writing cheap advertising slogans. This outsider poet of the new age gets commissioned to write an ode to the famous Slovene poet Preseren, for the occasion o
a poet's day of work
Adapting pagan rituals and beings into contemporary London, the film tells a story of a young woman, struggling with loneliness and alcohol addiction, who one day starts being stalked by someone who may or may not come f
A young man from the periphery recites poetry in the midst of a community shooting, where the police state kills blacks and the poor with war frequency.
Broodthaers’s first film, Clef d’Horloge was made using a borrowed camera and some film stock that he had been given. It was shot at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in 1956, during an exhibition of works by Kurt Sch
Made by exiled Spanish filmmaker Rosina Prado in 1961, during her studies at the VGIK (All-Russian State University of Cinematography, Soviet Union).
In 1983 and 1984, bpNichol used an Apple IIe computer and the Apple BASIC programming language to create First Screening, a suite of a dozen programmed, kinetic poems. He distributed First Screening through Underwhich, a
There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women is a film that assembles archival footage, text, song and new 16mm material. Drawn from the work of poets, writers, musicians and artists, these extracts form a collage of image
Stavros Tornes directs this documentary centered on the poet Nikos Kavvadias and his poetry.
A film profile of Belfast poet Michael Longley, offering insights into his work, friendships, working process, the places that have inspired him and his relationship with the natural world.
In this short film, Toronto artist Petra Tolley, who has Down syndrome, performs a soliloquy that encapsulates her distinctive take on the social self. Drawing from her emotional experiences, she illustrates what it feel
Crude Poetry is a film about language. It is a film about a deep wish to be understood. Set in the ruins of biblical Babel, a long-lost city which housed speakers of a so called ‘universal language’, two characters come
The paintings of the artist Güler Yücel tell about weddings and funerals, of almond blossom and olive harvest, of her husband, the poet, and of herself, her love of life and wisdom. “I can’t paint anything that I have
Visionary impressions of a long overdue vernal equinox. A vertiginous and textural tone poem describing the semiotics of spring through lucent, hand-crafted frames. Out of winter's harsh grasp, some kind of promise grows