Poem Movies

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.

A film by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen, based on the poem "Girl on the escalator" by Charles Bukowski.

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

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues.

Images complement what is always lacking in words. The poems complement what is always present in the city. Freely inspired by the poetry Cidade City...

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

A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, wh...

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

Based on the poem by Keaton St. James, the film follows two young teenage boys and the people they interact with on the day of the end of the world.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's "Spr...

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

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 p...

Video poem for SPAM Zine 004

A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.

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