A Poem Thorn (Part II)

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Recite A Poem For Me

How should poetry live on in our ethnic group under the impact of contemporary culture?

Poem and Stone

A film skirting the edge of performance, documentary, and poetry, explores the question of human memory through the combination of a variety of abstract and symbolic motifs. It refers to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost

Father, Son and Holy Torum

Father, Son and Holy Torum, by Estonian director Mark Soosaar, recounts a particularly ghastly episode in the history of the "new Russia." The film examines the fate of the Khanty people in western Siberia who have been

Death of the Poet

On July 25, 1980, the great Russian poet Vladimir Vysotsky died. He was 42 years old. He did not die in a duel like Pushkin and Lermontov, did not fall from a bullet and a noose like Mayakovsky and Yesenin. The cause of

Death by Paper Cuts - Poets, Prophets & Preachers

When we speak, lead, teach, and preach sometimes very destructive can happen over time, small at first, and then it grows... Filmed live at the Poets, Prophets, and Preachers seminar in July 09' in Grand Rapids, The Poet

A Portrait of the Poet as James Broughton (Part One)

"I know only that this work is an homage to that begun in cinema by Jean Cocteau in his famous trilogy and that, through James, I have become his successor, however unworthy, to continue the work. This film is the first

Beginning in the Beginning - Poets, Prophets & Preachers

When we speak, lead, teach, and preach sometimes very destructive can happen over time, small at first, and then it grows... Filmed live at the Poets, Prophets, and Preachers seminar in July 09' in Grand Rapids, The Poet

György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes

Video documentation of György Ligeti’s "Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes," presented by the 21st Century Consort on December 22, 2020 in Washington, D.C. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill.

Poèmes électriques

A poetic, experimental film composed of fragmented images, voices, and urban impressions, where electricity becomes a metaphor for modern emotion and sensory overload. The film blends poetry and visual collage to evoke d

USA: Poetry: Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery

Richard O. Moore’s own poetic practice and literary training permeate his films, which bring the spectator into the poet’s world, each documentary an invitation to join the poet and her/his poetry. “A true pioneer of the

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

Procès d’un jeune poète

Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer

Alan Berliner has been chronicling the final years of his friend, cousin, and former mentor, Edwin Honig - distinguished poet, translator, critic, and teacher - into the depths of Alzheimer's disease. Among many other ho

Poëzie is kinderspel

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

Poem

The action in the film takes place in a remote Bulgarian village. A certain conflict takes place between the new-coming young people and the old villages because of the water.

Poem

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Come leggere tre volte una poesia

Poetry, Pomegranates and Parajanov

A short film featuring quotes from Armenian auteur Sergei Parajanov and clips from his masterpiece The Colour of Pomegranates.