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Natasha - Portrait of an Urban Poet
Documentary - Natasha Ria El-Scari
The Poet's Veil
The veils-of distance, color, and detached symbols-are both painterly in form and related to the acts of reading and writing seen throughout the film. The obscuring of the word represents my struggle to create an unnamab
Rainbow Black: Poet Sarah Webster Fabio
The film depicts the life and work of Webster Fabio, who died in 1979, through interviews and clips of her recording poetry albums for Folkways Records. The poet and educator is often credited as being the "Mother of Bla
The Poet’s Wine
Drunken poet declaims a surreal poem.
This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet
The last day of Patrizia Cavalli’s home. Before it’s all gone.
Poet on a Business Trip
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 know about Shu is that he plays a poet who sends himself on a business
Leonardo Bastião, The Illiterate Poet
In Itapetim’s countryside, deep inside Sertão do Pajeú in the Pernambuco backlands lives Leonardo Bastião in a rammed earth housing, a poet who, even without knowing how to read or write, built through his improvised met
I want to be a poet
The award-winning writer Claribel Alegría tells the story of her life, her influence in a new generation of poets and prizes like Premio Reina Sofía for Iberoamerican Poetry in 2017.
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this Brechtian sentence: "Oil resists the five acts." He describes how diff
Edgar Estigarribia, The Poet of Guarán
Against a colorful and psychedelic rural scenario in Argentine Mesopotamia, this film depicts the life and works of poet and reciter Edgar Estigarribia (1923-1989). A compulsive, self-taught creator, the "Poet of Guaran"
Robert Burns: The People's Poet
Writer Andrew O'Hagan asks what made Robert Burns one of the world's favourite poets, as Scotland celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous sons. He travels through the landscape of modern S
The American Poet's Visit
Based on a story by Frank Moorhouse, this is a satire on left intellectual manners in Sydney at the time. Moorhouse's story was in turn based on an actual event, a party thrown by members of the Sydney Push for visiting
Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is well known as one of Canada's prominent early literary figures. He is less famous as a federal civil servant who rose to become a powerful head of the Indian Department, and who, from
Plácido: The Blood of a Poet
Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Plácido) is accused of leading a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial government. Preoccupied by the development of Afro-Hispanic artist and craftsmen of the mid 19th century, Plácido
A Poet's Life
A cautionary tale about workers who are neglected, lose hope, and fade away while businessmen prosper by selling out to foreign countries. As the greed of the businessmen escalates, the economy collapses, and a young man
A Poet of the River
An 18-year-old North Korean defector, Lee Sun-hwa, crosses the Duman River, traversing the thin boundary between life and death, and arrives in South Korea. Upon completing her resettlement program at Hanawon, she is pla
An Ode to the Poet
Miha, a poet whom no one takes seriously, earns his living by writing cheap advertising slogans. This outsider poet of the new age gets commissioned to write an ode to the famous Slovene poet Preseren, for the occasion o
For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias
Stavros Tornes directs this documentary centered on the poet Nikos Kavvadias and his poetry.
Dylan Thomas: A Poet's Guide
Famous for his womanising, drinking and tragic death, Dylan Thomas is the rock star of 20th-century poetry. But for Welsh poet Owen Sheers, his tempestuous life often obscures the power of his poetry. Sheers takes us on