Poetry Movies

Intimate portrait of poet, playwright, painter and filmmaker Derek Walcott, set in his beloved native island, St Lucia.

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...

As the day begins, a woman sets out to go about her routine, until she decides to take her children to the cemetery to see zombies. When she returns...

Third film of Juan José Ponce's trilogy about Federico García Lorca.

The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...

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

With tones of nostalgia and magic, a universe is revealed where personal and imaginary memories seems to become indissociable. VHS glitches distort...

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

sucking on words is a documentary film that features interviews with, and extensive performances by, the American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It also...

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time,...

A journey into a mind of an artist with creative crisis.

In the film, the outstanding contemporary avant-garde poet Vladimir Ignatiev, the heir of OBERIUT, appeared. He played himself and read his own...

A young dromedary attends its first conference. Its happiness is going to turn into deep disappointment.

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

Documentary film about the great forgotten of Chilean literature. With interviews with family members, poets and artists who knew him, this feature...