Poetry Movies

A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.

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,...

A short film inspired by the poetry of Billy Collins.

A collaborative film created during Lockdown in response to the political landscape and the work of Daisaku Ikeda.

The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...

Shows that poems can be written about many subjects. Points out that choral speaking and impromptu composition can increase the enjoyment of poems.

Three short experimental video lyrics based on the classical figure.

A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!

A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece.

This documentary shows the life and work of the Galician poet from O Courel, Uxío Novoneyra, from a double perspective: the intimate and...

A video adaptation of Shannon Sankey's poem Infusions. Readings of the poem are combined with old commercials and home video-styled clips depicting...

A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.

A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.

Set in the lake country of Northern Minnesota, Cry of the Loon is a lyrical mediation on life, death, and the beauty of the natural world.

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...

Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's...