Poem Movies

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 ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

Letter to Celestial is a re-animation and re-imagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montréal's...

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

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

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...

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

video art about growing up and the longing for childhood available on YouTube

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

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

The experiences of five free-spirited individuals trying to break free from societal norms. Each narrative discusses creativity, mental health, labor...

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

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

A haiku about a window and a woman.

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