Poem Movies

Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the...

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

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

Video poem for SPAM Zine 004

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

video art about growing up and the longing for childhood available on YouTube

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

A modern reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the...

A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This...

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

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

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...

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

An expression of time and memories.

A ghost follows its non-existent shadow across a series of windows that gives light but no direction. As the ghost moves, a poem is read that serves...

The experiences of five free-spirited individuals trying to break free from societal norms. Each narrative discusses creativity, mental health, labor...