Poetry Movies
- 1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
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Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...
- 2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
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Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected...
- 2023
Translations
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It's been years since Stef last left her house. The loss of her brother combined with the quiet dread of the unknown conspiring to keep her inside....
- 2022
Liquefy
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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...
- 2021
Hello My Dear
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The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period...
- 2022
I Wish I Never Met You
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Lauren Thomas is turning 40 and no one is more excited than her. She is married to Andrew, an amazing husband, a true provider and father. Andrew's...
- 2005
Love Is Five Seven Five
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A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.
- 2018
Where are the African Gods?
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A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...
- 2011
Here and There
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One summer evening in a small town in France, two teenage boys, Clarinet and Piano, say goodbye. For twelve years, they rejoin each other at...
- 1994
In Custody
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Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of...
- 2021
The Sea
The Sea4.52021HD
The story of Ana and Diego, a couple who decide to go live on the coast in Chile. There, they meet Vicente, with whom Diego secretly begins a...
- 2016
To Stay Alive: A Method
To Stay Alive: A Method5.42016HD
Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text...
- 1966
Elsa the Rose
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Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.
- 1991
Thanksgiving Prayer
Thanksgiving Prayer6.41991HD
An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America.
- 1978
Rosaura
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This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even...
- 1993
The Art of Tripping
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Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug...
- 2023
Afterimages
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A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation...
- 2010
Monólogos de un hombre incierto
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- 2019
Searching Eva
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This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids...
- 1998
Borges: A Life in Poetry
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A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando...