Poetry Movies

Bioscope is an anthology film having 4 short films inspired from 4 poems.

Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...

In the course of a real estate search a poem is produced. Images play around this drift between properties.

A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

Shot on a single roll of Super 8mm film, with no editing or retakes, RUSSIA follows a poor young man from the Egyptian countryside as he confronts a...

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and...

In the film, the outstanding contemporary avant-garde poet Vladimir Ignatiev, the heir of OBERIUT, appeared. He played himself and read his own...

What happens when non-violent leaders are pushed to support armed struggle against a brutal regime in a forgotten war? Thabyay: Creative Resistance...

Four Montrealers search for their path within their failing metropolis, mirroring the deterioration of their deepest ambitions. A cinepoetic journey...

At the beginning of the 70s, Jean Genet is in Tangier, he is in his sixties and he no longer writes. He lives in the El Minza hotel, a palace, where...