Poem Movies

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

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

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

A story about a house elf (tomte) preparing the stable for Christmas. Inspired by the famous poem by the Swedish writer Viktor Rydberg.

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Tu...

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

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

A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

Approaching the microphone in a small room, a young woman prepares to make the speech of her life. Desperate to find her voice in the wake of an ended...

Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.

Images complement what is always lacking in words. The poems complement what is always present in the city. Freely inspired by the poetry Cidade City...

A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This...

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Jap...

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’ dissects the idea...

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”