Poetry Movies

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. ...

A poem about mania written by Omar Zefier. His second film.

Inspired by the Poem by John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" follows the accounts of a dying man (Morgan Holgate) who encountered a mysterious...

'La Mamma Morta’ is an aria from the opera Andrea Chenier that is also well-known for its use in a memorable sequence in the Oscar...

The tale of the Cailleach Bheur, the Celtic goddess of nature, storms and winter, is well known to many in the Gàidhealtachd. Said to have...

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the...

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.

Wahdat-ul-Wujood explores the concept of oneness and the human journey through separation, conflict, and return. Inspired by the philosophy of Wahdat...

"The Rustic Poet" follows Isaias Riquelme, an 89-year-old poet from the Araucanía region, Chile, in a journey through his life story, highs...

A young filmmaker struggles with her mental illness as she makes a documentary with the author Fiona Wright, and challenges her to express her...

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...

A documentary film on the site of a former lumber mill. It follows Lindsay Suter an architect and direct descendant of Lauren J. Drake, President of...

A short film animation by Julian Gray with former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins reading his own poetry.

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems...

INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the...