Poetry Movies
- 2012
Al Khadra: poet of the desert
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Al Khadra is a renowned Sahrawi war poetess living in the al-Auin camp in the Algerian desert. A vivid testament to 30 years of the Sahara conflict,...
- 1996
Una pasión llamada Clara Lair
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Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón...
- 2020
Dichterbij
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Hilmano van Velzen, the "Homeless Poet" wants nothing more than to become famous with his poetry. But his addiction and character get in the way.
- 2015
Disappointed dromedary
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A young dromedary attends its first conference. Its happiness is going to turn into deep disappointment.
- 1970
Sunnyside
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Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and...
- 2020
Pond, Fish
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Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance starts to take place in her adolescence.
- 1970
Margaritas en otoño
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An elderly woman finds out by the rumors of her friends that a teenager in her neighborhood has been kicked out of her home for being a lesbian. This...
- 1989
Dagerman
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About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis,...
- 2022
Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word
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This video by Coco Fusco includes footage of the artist traveling by boat around Hart Island, the site of New York’s public cemetery that was...
- 1989
El regalo
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Poetry film based on "El regalo" by Honduran writer Clementina Suárez.
- 1970
Planet Poetica & the City of Dreams
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A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!
- 2018
River: Morning
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A short video adaptation of the poem "River: Morning" by Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma. Part of the Visible Poetry Project.
- 2021
Hello My Dear
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The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period...
- 1993
The Grove
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The Grove is the second part of Lawrence Jordan's H.D. Trilogy. It continues what began with THE BLACK OUD (again featuring Joanna McClure as the...
- 2024
Tuesdays: (A Poem!).
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A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning...
- 2024
Four Haikus
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Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and...
- 2018
Caught in a Landslide
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Through a combination of pharmaceuticals and alcohol, Jay walks through the lost memories of true love. Tonight, he will walk in the wilting...
- 1970
Groter dan je bent
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- 2015
Poet on a Business Trip
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In 2002, Ju Anqi made a film about a tour by the poet Shu through Xinjiang, the most western-lying, autonomous Uyghur province of China. All that we...
- 2011
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) - Muse of Keening
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A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet,...