Poetry Movies
- 2025

OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR
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The attempt to await something. A visual representation of internal movements.
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- 2023

Ozymandias
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Ozymandias recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. Selected AI-generated images and text-to-speech narration - with their vutlure-like...
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- 1970

Espectro
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In Espectro the viewer embarks on a journey that enters the dreams and thoughts of the filmmaker, exploring the nuances of image, archive, and...
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- 2024

Tales of the Deity's Lover
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Various clips of jellyfish accompanied by the narration of two poems concerning a deity's lover.
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- 2015

Riding the Highline
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A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping freight trains across the country. Shot over the summer of 2013 on...
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- 2025

Only One Glove
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"I thought of all those gloves I see here and there on the street and it's like they're waiting for someone to turn around, look for them, take them...
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- 2015

the problem is that everything is fleeting
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A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.
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- 1995

Vivat Hollý
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- 1970

The Story of Everything
The Story of Everything01970HD
A creation story in epic poem format that traces our origins from the big bang to now, using science, poetry, storytelling, visual art, music, 'oli...
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- 2019

You, the Choice of My Parents
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A poetic journey through the life of a woman going through an arranged marriage, animated on traditional Tongan Cloth called Ngatu.
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- 1954

Poems Are Fun
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Shows that poems can be written about many subjects. Points out that choral speaking and impromptu composition can increase the enjoyment of poems.
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- 1970

Groter dan je bent
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- 2018

Infusions
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A video adaptation of Shannon Sankey's poem Infusions. Readings of the poem are combined with old commercials and home video-styled clips depicting...
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- 2025

La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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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...
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- 1970

M'es en abyme
M'es en abyme01970HD
A collage of images and voices of women poets that succeeds brilliantly, both as a tribute to the women whose words are borrowed and as an original...
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- 2024

Dispositions
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Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness
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- 2026

Kiss of the Muses
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A poetess retreats into a mysterious forest seeking inspiration, only to enter a dreamlike realm where four enigmatic muses guide her through...
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- 2001

A Mere Grain of Nothing My Death: A Life in Poetry - Ingrid Jonker
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On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little...
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- 1997

Beaux et courageux
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- 1970

four frames; four stories
four frames; four stories01970HD
Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past...
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