Poem Movies

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

An interpretive visual to accompany the spoken word poem by Nikki Lorenzo, shot in one day on a hiking trail in Malibu, California.

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

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

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

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

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

A story about a house elf (tomte) preparing the stable for Christmas. Inspired by the famous poem by the Swedish writer Viktor Rydberg.

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...

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial...

eyes roam / dancing in step with / my feet which praise the ground

Based on a Poem by Fabi De Luca She always thought something like this wouldn‘t happen to her. No man would disgrace himself because of her. ...

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

a poem. trees. fragments of fritz. movement.

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