Poetry Movies
- 2020
Letter to a Young Man
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A collaborative film created during Lockdown in response to the political landscape and the work of Daisaku Ikeda.
- 2017
Denim
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Denim' is a poetic short film by writer, poet and performer Siana Bangura, exploring gentrification and social cleansing in South East London....
- 2023
Kefi
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A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul
- 1970
Planet Poetica & the City of Dreams
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A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!
- 2022
Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word
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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...
- 2005
Poetry is Child's Play
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A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.
- 2022
Um Dia Eu Fui Zeus
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- 2022
Beginning’s End
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- 2022
Spectrum
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Filmmaker Tegan Pearce combines autobiographical spoken word and expressive visual direction to present a cinematic interpretation of autism.
- 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...
- 2021
P.E.N.S.
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There is a cultural tide rising in Houston. Amid the city's museums, historic landmarks, and vibrant nightlife exists a cache of the nation's most...
- 1970
Robert Frost's The Death of a Hired Man
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A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.
- 1970
Eyes
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Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's...
- 2022
CHICKENPOX
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CHICKENPOX is a poetry/film/zine project which seeks to undermine the binary of love and violence; to show that they are much more intertwined than...
- 1999
Figures
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Three short experimental video lyrics based on the classical figure.
- 1988
The Bitter Berry: The Life and Work of Byron Herbert Reece
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A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece.
- 1970
Don't Take Harlem
Don't Take Harlem01970HD
“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and...