Poetry Movies

OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a...

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

FOR KAPISIGA PAUL LYONS is dedicated to the beloved and dearly missed University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English professor Paul Lyons...

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

Adapted from a poem by the director’s mother, "Baisure" in French can be translated as "Kissing Loaves,” the exact place where two loaves...

An elderly woman finds out by the rumors of her friends that a teenager in her neighborhood has been kicked out of her home for being a lesbian. This...

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

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...

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

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

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...

A poetic text foretelling a death. An elderly Paraguayan woman—a fortune-teller and prostitute living in the seaside town of...

A woman cuts off her braids and finds relief in her natural hair.

In a bland and lonesome reality of everyday life, Lomo discovers a portal to an alternate universe. Trying to find her way back home, she stumbles...

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

A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...