Poetry Movies
- 2008

Etel Adnan: Words in Exile
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The film reconstructs through an array of visual fragments, a multiplicity of languages, of peoples and their identities, the unique portrait of the...
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- 2009

The Art of Drowning
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Ponders the possibilities of what awaits us at the end of our life.
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- 2023

Afterimages
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A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation...
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- 2025

Causa
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Three surreal stories intertwine in a strange anthology of causality, effect and consequence: An actress who will do everything in her power to get...
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- 2018

Here: A Visual Poem
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An experimental visual poem combining film, animation, photography, and archival footage inviting people to occupy the Black Body and examine the...
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- 2021

Wè
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As Black and LGBTQ+ History Month begin this February, material science clothing brand PANGAIA leads celebrations with a poetic film that honors...
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- 2014

The Inspired Island: A Life That Sings
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How have one poet and his single book of poetry from the last century continued to inspire people today? A Life That Sings follows the legendary poet...
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- 2017

Between Pudukkottai & Singapore
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This short documentary features poet N Rengarajan, a migrant worker from Pudukkottai, India who sustains a practice of poetry as a way of life while...
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- 2007

sucking on words
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sucking on words is a documentary film that features interviews with, and extensive performances by, the American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It also...
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- 2016

The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits
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"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of...
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- 2020

The World in Our Hands
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A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.
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- 1948

A World Is Turning
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A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community.
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- 2010

Pablo de Rokha: El Amigo Piedra
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Documentary film about the great forgotten of Chilean literature. With interviews with family members, poets and artists who knew him, this feature...
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- 2024

Écrire, vivre, déneiger
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- 2025

Poetry on 8 Tape
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Poetry on 8 Tape features eight vignettes of 8 Tape film narrated with poetry that traverses the landscapes of grief, evolution, self-acceptance,...
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- 1981

Synapses
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Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.
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- 2021

Song of the Flies
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The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed...
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- 2016

Before I Go to Sleep
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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.
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- 2022

Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word
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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...
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- 2005

Poetry is Child's Play
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A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.
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