Poetry Movies

A queer poet navigates heartbreak through writing, techno, and self-destruction.

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

WAR OF WORDS is an energizing, controversial and inspiring feature documentary that lifts the lid on the fast growing UK Battle Rap scene. The...

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...

A man of words is forced to become a man of action as John discovers the secret bucket list of his ill son Robin. The two abscond from the hospital...

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,...

Erwin Romulo, the late Alexis Tioseco’s best friend, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s untimely death...

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...

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Various clips of jellyfish accompanied by the narration of two poems concerning a deity's lover.

Being educated and knowing how drink, A-Ni is seen as the town's madwoman. Yulu is entranced by her.

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

"Before I left today, I almost forgot to answer a lot of e-mails."

Young & Na!ve is a poetic apology to everyone ever sexually molested and a film that needs to be seen by everyone ever born.

A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her...

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.