Movies: Poem

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

This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the line "This is the secret that will not stay hidden."...

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

A haiku about a window and a woman....

Approaching the microphone in a small room, a young woman prepares to make the speech of her life. Desperate to find her voice in the wake of an ended relationship, she resorts to sharing any piece of advice she can muster. Her reflection on their di...

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

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 school trip to the beach counterpoint one teen boy’s introspective sexual awakenings and questionings. Ma...

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

A storm is on the horizon. When a jet-black cloud engulfs a small village, the residents discover that it could put an end to more than just blue skies....

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment....

An audiovisual poem. Cryptic whispers speak of a mysterious being, known only to forgotten folklore, that has travelled across distant lands to haunt citizens of a neon-drenched city....

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8"....

Frame... within a frame... within a frame... poetic... dark and tragic......

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

The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a word ball, gives a literal stroke and makes an imaginary goal in this film about football, passion and...

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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....

An exploration of love and loss in Paris....

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain...

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. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the Er...