Poem Movies
- 1946

The Night Before Christmas
The Night Before Christmas3.1251946HD
A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.
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- 2023

Afterimages
Afterimages02023HD
A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation...
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- 2012

My Mirror is the Door
My Mirror is the Door02012HD
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...
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- 2026

Letter To Celestial
Letter To Celestial02026HD
Letter to Celestial is a re-animation and re-imagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montréal's...
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- 2020

Come il Bianco
Come il Bianco02020HD
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- 2024

eye love you
eye love you02024HD
eyes roam / dancing in step with / my feet which praise the ground
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- 2016

Chess Poem
Chess Poem102016HD
Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...
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- 2025

Love Poems Part II: Alexandria
Love Poems Part II: Alexandria102025HD
CATS, SEA, FISHERMEN AND SUNSET. The sequel to the original Love Poems. A short documentary Film capturing beautiful shots in the City of...
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- 1935

The Old Prospector Talks
The Old Prospector Talks01935HD
An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.
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- 1935

Boyhood
Boyhood01935HD
An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.
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- 2024

unbroken rhythms
unbroken rhythms02024HD
a poem. trees. fragments of fritz. love—and nothing besides!
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- 2023

I Would Like to Live on the Moon
I Would Like to Live on the Moon02023HD
A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.
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- 2014

The Keeper of Herds
The Keeper of Herds02014HD
Adaptation of the poem by Fernando Pessoa.
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- 2003

The ErlKing
The ErlKing8.6672003HD
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....
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- 2023

Jellyhead Goes on a Walk
Jellyhead Goes on a Walk02023HD
A poem about a person with jelly for a head.
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- 1970

Imago/Mu
Imago/Mu01970HD
Hand-processed, in-camera edited 16 mm footage of a desolated Italian beach meets four poems by Jeannette Hunziker, evoking loss, memory, and the...
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- 2013

Dobrisa Cesaric - Selected Poems
Dobrisa Cesaric - Selected Poems02013HD
Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.
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- 1932

The Cradles
The Cradles6.31932HD
A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.
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- 1935

The Scout Master
The Scout Master01935HD
A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.
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- 2007

On Top of the Earth
On Top of the Earth4.52007HD
Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.
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