Poetry Movies

A poetic study of thirst. Stylized images of flowing water and the face of a young woman flowing past as in a metaphysical dream. The magic and...

Reading out loud one poem of Andrés Eloy Blanco, titled “Pleito de amar y querer” (Battle between loving and caring).

In the course of a real estate search a poem is produced. Images play around this drift between properties.

A boy feels that his only way of living is through the art of painting.

One gray and routine day, a lonely young man is visited by an extraordinary being.

Various clips of jellyfish accompanied by the narration of two poems concerning a deity's lover.

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

A film about the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla and his creative poetic process, his struggle to find an honest language, one which adheres to the...

Switching between their surreal perspectives, two high school students attempt to find their purpose as they battle their inner demons and a...

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period...

Based on abstract images by Kamler, Andre Voisin and Francois Bayle imagined the story of a messenger charged to bring to our planet the key to a...

A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of...

The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time,...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one of the great French writers and...

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