Poem Movies

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

eyes roam / dancing in step with / my feet which praise the ground

A modern reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."

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

The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of...

By poet Olivia Douglass, this work has been commissioned by Other Parties in response to Bushman. to, from, gets to the heart of the tensions...

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.

A haiku about a window and a woman.

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the...

A sumptuous short film of friendship and adoration between boys, based on a poem by Peter LeBerge. Moments of joy, bonding and roughhousing on a...

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

A film by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen, based on the poem "Girl on the escalator" by Charles Bukowski.

You are alive like they are.

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

An expression of time and memories.

From the music of Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio, English filmmaker Terence Davies does a cinematic reading of his own poem about his late...

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

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and...

An exploration of love and loss in Paris.