Poem Movies

A haiku about a window and a woman.

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation...

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

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

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...

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 the complex, deepening relationship between humans and their surroundings as civilizations succumb to the relentless natural world.

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in...

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...

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

From his book, Les Fleurs du Mal, an adaptation of Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem, Une Charogne.

Two girls go from home to business stealing mail and packages in search of something mysterious.

Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.