Poem Movies

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial...

A poem about a flower going through an existential crisis

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

Dajung, beloved by teachers and classmates, hides her dream to become an author. One day, Dajung meets a new girl – Seojung, who has won an...

An audiovisual poem about a poltergeist relationship.

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

A poetry film that tells the story of a man struggling with his deteriorating mental state and self-destruction.

The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a...

An exploration of love and loss in Paris.

An interpretive visual to accompany the spoken word poem by Nikki Lorenzo, shot in one day on a hiking trail in Malibu, California.

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into...

A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This...

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

After reading the works written by Balachandran, a publisher encourages him to publish a book. However, he struggles a lot as he faces a writer's...

A haiku about a window and a woman.

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.