Poem Movies

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

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

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....

You are alive like they are.

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

A woman cuts off her braids and finds relief in her natural hair.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

A poem about a person with jelly for a head.

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

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

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...

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’...

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

Video poem for SPAM Zine 004

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.