Poetry Movies

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower...

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected...

The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed...

When Tess Kelley realizes her daughter Jenny Kelley still isn't over her divorce from musician Rick Meadows, the irresponsible, ever-absent father of...

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

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

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

Kang Sai, a reserved and talented artist, has long seen his cheerful friend Xiao Xi as his muse. After college, he journeys to the serene Arxan...

After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for...

80,000 Thoughts is a poetic autobiographical and fictional film about testing oneself and one's possibilities—sexually, gender-wise, and...

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.

Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Combining interviews with soldiers, journalists,...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

A series of poems.

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being...