Poem Movies

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

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.”

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...

In I Want You To Pause This, three registers (sound, image, text) happen at the same time. Since the centre of attention is constantly deferred, the...

Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

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

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

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

A vertical film about self-love in the times of liquid love. A film based on a poem by Isadora Tricerri about freedom and the difficulties of being...

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

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...

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.