The Inspired Island: Towards the Completion of a Poem

Poems and Constructions

Reel 1 – the walls of Trastevere in a myriad of transitory stop frame sequences shot on a clockwork Bolex with a 25mm macro lens - peeling stucco, graffiti, torn posters, street signs, from the Terme di Caracalla to the

Sénac, Jean. Algérien, Poète

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one of the great French writers and poets and the only one of his reputation to have accompanied the Algerian revolution be

Mi poesía soy yo.

100 years after the birth of Idea Vilariño we review the life, work and validity of one of the most attractive poets in our literature. Her wisdom and the beauty of her work, the historical and cultural moment in which s

Neuschwanstein Linderhof Herrenchiemsee Castles and Life of King Ludwig II

I want to remain an eternal mystery to myself and the others ... The myth of King Ludwig II is unbroken even more than 125 years after his death. The 85-minute documentary, released in 2012 with beautiful aerial photogra

Small Town Poet

Paul Schleemueller is the town clerk of Schonbach, but secretly, he is counting on becoming the municipality's mayor one day. However, Paul's real passion is poetry, which he has never admitted to anyone, because he thi

Tuesdays: (A Poem!).

A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning ‘day of Tiw’ (the Norse god of law)). More info here: https://en.tuespedia.org/wi

First Screening: Computer Poems

In 1983 and 1984, bpNichol used an Apple IIe computer and the Apple BASIC programming language to create First Screening, a suite of a dozen programmed, kinetic poems. He distributed First Screening through Underwhich, a

Love Poems Part II: Alexandria

CATS, SEA, FISHERMEN AND SUNSET. The sequel to the original Love Poems. A short documentary Film capturing beautiful shots in the City of Alexandria followed by a Poem written for the city by Salma Torrez.

Dobrisa Cesaric - Selected Poems

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

Shepherd’s Poem

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."

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

Poetry of Nature

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

USA: Poetry: Louis Zukofsky

Born in 1904, and first published by Ezra Pound in 1927, Louis Zukosky is the poet whose name is associated with the term objectivists. Although never widely known as a poet, his work as well as his writings on poetry ha

Poetry for Sale

Friedl vom Gröller's Poetry for Sale is a portrait of a young man peddling verse on the Paris metro. Reinforcing the antiquated nature of his actions, vom Groller constructs a classical scene then cedes control to her su

Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation collag

Paul's Poem

Fragments from 'Adventures in the House of Memory’, a poem by pyrotechnic drummer and musician Paul Burwell, were performed randomly in locations with different acoustics; by the Thames, under railway bridges, in St Paul

A Poem To Liu Xa

Made on international Women's day 2015

Pier Paolo Pasolini poeta

The video film is the first on Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet and writer in which only the author appears and only his voice is heard: the reading of his verses alternates with interventions on poetry and life. There are very

The Little Poet

The Little Poet sits in the museum sketching, imagining what it would be like to live in a painting as a little girl and a little boy explore the brushstroke worlds of Van Gogh, Monet, Miró, Seurat...