Poem Movies

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

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

Hand-processed, in-camera edited 16 mm footage of a desolated Italian beach meets four poems by Jeannette Hunziker, evoking loss, memory, and the...

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

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

Letter to Celestial is a re-animation and re-imagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montréal's...

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...

Adaptation of the poem by Fernando Pessoa.

Observing as the World Burns: Poems is an evocative, introspective short film that transforms lines of verse into raw visual poetry—confronting...

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

Based on the poem "I Will Love the 21st Century" by Mark Strand

An audiovisual poem about a poltergeist relationship.

After reading the works written by Balachandran, a publisher encourages him to publish a book. However, he struggles a lot as he faces a writer's...

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