Poetry Movies

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.

In a sarcastic mood, EZTV's founder John Dorr makes fun of the extensive aspiring Los Angeles spoken word scene of the 1980s and the enormous number...

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

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...

A girl reads and discusses about 20 poems.

A video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.

About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis,...

A short portrait of poet Bert Schierbeek, who reads from his poetry.

A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning...

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

A young dromedary attends its first conference. Its happiness is going to turn into deep disappointment.

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...

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time,...

With tones of nostalgia and magic, a universe is revealed where personal and imaginary memories seems to become indissociable. VHS glitches distort...

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.