Poetry Movies

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping freight trains across the country. Shot over the summer of 2013 on...

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

Inspired by the life and poetry of Sargon Boulos, this film explores exile, memory, and the enduring connection between a person and their homeland.

An elderly woman finds out by the rumors of her friends that a teenager in her neighborhood has been kicked out of her home for being a lesbian. This...

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

In Espectro the viewer embarks on a journey that enters the dreams and thoughts of the filmmaker, exploring the nuances of image, archive, and...

In a bland and lonesome reality of everyday life, Lomo discovers a portal to an alternate universe. Trying to find her way back home, she stumbles...

A woman cuts off her braids and finds relief in her natural hair.

A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.

FOR KAPISIGA PAUL LYONS is dedicated to the beloved and dearly missed University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English professor Paul Lyons...

A video adaptation of Shannon Sankey's poem Infusions. Readings of the poem are combined with old commercials and home video-styled clips depicting...

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...

A poetic text foretelling a death. An elderly Paraguayan woman—a fortune-teller and prostitute living in the seaside town of...