Poetry Movies

A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her...

In this vertical short-form video, a strange fortune teller comes with a message for a specific collective.

If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...

Rumination at the fairground by night has our narrator contemplating desire, human nature, sexual freedom, dreams, past romances and self-discovery....

Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance starts to take place in her adolescence.

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

A visual poetry short film, inspired by and featuring the poem "Knickknacks" by Tuesday Taylor York.

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

Bioscope is an anthology film having 4 short films inspired from 4 poems.

“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...

Observing as the World Burns: Poems is an evocative, introspective short film that transforms lines of verse into raw visual poetry—confronting...

A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet,...

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the...

Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...

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

Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts...