Movies: Poem

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 as its guide....

A boy who finished school and spends time at home, between routine and sleep, during the COVID-19 pandemic....

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska....

An interpretive visual to accompany the spoken word poem by Nikki Lorenzo, shot in one day on a hiking trail in Malibu, California....

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which women poets were a very strong presence....

Based on the poem by Keaton St. James, the film follows two young teenage boys and the people they interact with on the day of the end of the world....

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In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold ...

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 multiplied me are out of time with each other, I give up and try dancing....

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial art training was in painting, Johns quickly realised that his favourite medium was film. He made Solar...

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 between the estranged and embodied experiences of the African diaspora....

Video poem about New Hampshire and its foliage in Autumn...

A poem about a person with jelly for a head....

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne....

You are alive like they are....

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In his film-poem Shades of Mensa, Jon Ratigan pairs glyphs and typograms from graphic aptitude tests prevalent in employment application processes with the evocative names given to commercial paint colours....

Based on the poem "I Will Love the 21st Century" by Mark Strand...

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

The story of a young Saudi poet who receives the prestigious title The Prince of Poets (Amir Al-Shu’ara), and is later nominated to recite a welcome poem before King Salman. However, one word would render this festive evening into a nightmare....