Poem Movies

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in...

A haiku about a window and a woman.

Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the...

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...

An exploration of the complex, deepening relationship between humans and their surroundings as civilizations succumb to the relentless natural world.

Alma, a beautiful girl who didn’t get the chance to hear how chaos the world is since she was born. Her mother then bought a hearing device for...

You are alive like they are.

video art about growing up and the longing for childhood available on YouTube

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.