My Life Is Poetry
A documentary film of a Los Angeles senior LGBTQ poetry workshop's culmination event led by Steven Reigns. The workshop is made possible by a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and is supported by
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A documentary film of a Los Angeles senior LGBTQ poetry workshop's culmination event led by Steven Reigns. The workshop is made possible by a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and is supported by
Presents a portrait of Ted Rosenthal, a poet who has been told that he has six months to live. He discusses how he faces death and reads poems that he wrote during this period
"I know only that this work is an homage to that begun in cinema by Jean Cocteau in his famous trilogy and that, through James, I have become his successor, however unworthy, to continue the work. This film is the first
Elisângela and the Aldeia Maracanã Indigenous University. Film made with the residents of the Metrô-Mangueira community.
Features 43 of Hartley's paintings and drawings as well as many photographs from his early youth to his final years. Drawing heavily from Hartley's little-known poetical works, this documentary, a deeply personal stateme
Tells the story of Poei Sie Giok who was taught martial arts since he was a child, and inherits the knowledge passed down by his mother, Tjoei Hoa.
Documentary about the career of Attila The Stockbroker that discusses the politics, family life and passion that drives his poetry.
When we speak, lead, teach, and preach sometimes very destructive can happen over time, small at first, and then it grows... Filmed live at the Poets, Prophets, and Preachers seminar in July 09' in Grand Rapids, The Poe
A Documentation of Amit Bar in his early days as an amputee
In the darkness of the central valleys of Oaxaca, a blind craftsman takes advantage of the humidity of the night winds to create huge red clay sculptures. Like a wise grandfather, he composes everyday poems that express
The third film from the series Lonely Poets Club, Wilder Simpson preforms his poem titled 'Things that make it better'
A filmmaker asks, wryly and critically: what is poetry, and what role does it play in culture and politics?
In this short from James Knight, a collection of Paul Celan's poetry is subjected to an electrical atomisation. Its words are severed from their material form. Knight composes through decomposition, pages disintegrate an
Hacer y Deshacer: Poems from Within (2019) is an interactive video installation. Most of the video sequences show Gelis’s mother undressing, one strand of yarn at a time, sometimes in Panama’s Casco Viejo (historic dis
Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1892, Christian socialist Kenneth Leslie attended Dalhousie University as a 14-year-old child prodigy, then went on to study philosophy and theology in the States during the late 1930s. Tha
The story of a young Saudi poet who receives the prestigious title The Prince of Poets (Amir Al-Shu’ara), and is later nominated to recite a welcome poem before King Salman. However, one word would render this festive ev