Poem Movies

This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the...

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

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

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

An audiovisual poem about a poltergeist relationship.

We all carry our leaves, some of winter, some of spring and summer. But all leaves grow, breathe and wither with time; and so do we.

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

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

An exploration of the complex, deepening relationship between humans and their surroundings as civilizations succumb to the relentless natural world.

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...

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which...

A young girl explores her relationship with fear through poetry.

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

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

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

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in...

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...