Poetry Movies

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

Through meticulous cut-up, collaging and stop motion, Nico Vassilakis makes words dance across the screen, moving our eyes in all different...

A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping freight trains across the country. Shot over the summer of 2013 on...

A woman cuts off her braids and finds relief in her natural hair.

Dispositions is a visual poem conveying hope in the darkness

Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past...

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

A collage of images and voices of women poets that succeeds brilliantly, both as a tribute to the women whose words are borrowed and as an original...

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...

The tale of the Cailleach Bheur, the Celtic goddess of nature, storms and winter, is well known to many in the Gàidhealtachd. Said to have...

This Short Animated film is a personal project that aims to make the viewer experience a glimpse into the feelings, emotions and experiences that an...

Adapted from a poem by the director’s mother, "Baisure" in French can be translated as "Kissing Loaves,” the exact place where two loaves...

FOR KAPISIGA PAUL LYONS is dedicated to the beloved and dearly missed University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English professor Paul Lyons...