Poem Movies

Nick comes to New York to temporarily live with a jazz musician friend of his late father's named Cal while his mom is in rehab. During his time in...

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a...

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...

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

A amateur writer who seems to have nothing to live for, finds himself as the only hope of three people.

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio...

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into...

A spoken word piece about an autistic person experiencing sensory overload in a world that rejects their existence.

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...

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

Emma approaches adulthood, she tries to live an ordinary life and keep up to her late mothers expectations. However her anxiety weighs over her,...

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

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

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

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.