An Epic Poem

AN EPIC POEM explores the contradictions in man's conception of love through the myths and representations, which support it, and argues that man has constructed love in his own image, reflecting his profound anxieties a

Poésie règlementaire

Humerous film about work safety.

(Orpheus) The Poetics of Finitude

(Orpheus) The Poetics of Finitude deconstructs the myth of Orpheus using live action, animation, and text to create a visual poem.

The Poet and the Pond

More evocations of this style are evident in the shorter film THE POET AND THE POND (6 min, sound), an amalgam of patterns and repetitions that also bring to mind both the disciplined litanies of Marcel Duchamp and the s

Trenes un Video Poema

Poem

Experimental animation.

O Poema Imperfeito

Poetry from the Swamp

Underground Belarusian poets read their own verses inspired by the experience of living in 2020s Belarus. Sometimes poetic fiction and harsh reality collide in the picturesque backgrounds.

Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate

Billy Collins is perhaps the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim. This documentary follows him from poetry readings and college classrooms to his home, office, and even into

The Poetry of Non-Self

“The Poetry of Non-Self” is a short animation film that deals with moments that hold beauty, with how the sense of self is absent from such moments, and with the notion that this is, in a way, what childhood is like.

Poetic Jaundice

An old woman goes to the auto shop.

The Petrified Forest: A Picture Poem

This is a picture of the petrified forest: a journey through the sights and moods of a land full of wonder. It is a new concept, its creators purposefully veering far from the traditional narrative travelogue, wishing in

O Poeta Antônio Sales

Born on June 13, 1868, in Vila do Parazinho, today Paracuru, the poet and novelist Antonio Sales was also a theatrical, chronicler, lecturer, journalist, memorialist and creator of the literary movement Padaria Espiritua

POEM OF SONGJU

Songju, a taxi driver, is a man who cannot honestly express his confused feelings to his father. He usually writes poems to manage his emotions. One day, after visiting his father at the hospital, Miae asks Songju to tak

Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives

An evocative account, inspired by Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1934), of the lives of the Gaelic speaking inhabitants of Eriskay, a remote island in the Scottish Hebridean archipelago, made by German aristocrat Werner

A Poem Called Love Jones

Black lesbian love crests in a sweet spoken word performance about a couple's first meeting.

Poem for a Distant Village

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a Chinese independent film project was canceled. The crew, locked out in a distant village, decide to shoot a film regardless of the conditions. They set out on a quest to find an actress fr

Sometimes...A Poem

An animated love poem.

A Poem in Bamboo

In 1920s China, a young man visits his aunt’s mansion in the mountains.

Bernard Heidsieck, la poésie en action