Poem Movies

  • 1935
    Boyhood

    Boyhood

    Boyhood

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    An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

    Boyhood
  • 1991
    Les Équilibristes

    Les Équilibristes

    Les Équilibristes

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    Les Équilibristes
  • 2020
    Ataraxia

    Ataraxia

    Ataraxia

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    A conceptual art project exploring poetry in an alternative, modern way. Similar to a collection of short stories this project assembles a series of...

    Ataraxia
  • 2020
    Beautiful Neighbor, Opposite

    Beautiful Neighbor, Opposite

    Beautiful Neighbor, Opposite

    02020HD

    An exploration of love and loss in Paris.

    Beautiful Neighbor, Opposite
  • 2024
    Shellfish Knish

    Shellfish Knish

    Shellfish Knish

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    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...

    Shellfish Knish
  • 2020
    2020 Vision

    2020 Vision

    2020 Vision

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    A short film written by Hussain Manawer about 2020 and mental health.

    2020 Vision
  • 2020
    I Imagine a Text that Changes

    I Imagine a Text that Changes

    I Imagine a Text that Changes

    52020HD

    A haiku about a window and a woman.

    I Imagine a Text that Changes
  • 2023
    I Would Like to Live on the Moon

    I Would Like to Live on the Moon

    I Would Like to Live on the Moon

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    A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

    I Would Like to Live on the Moon
  • 2023
    Passing Time

    Passing Time

    Passing Time

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    From the music of Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio, English filmmaker Terence Davies does a cinematic reading of his own poem about his late...

    Passing Time
  • 2024
    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety

    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety

    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety

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    Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".

    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety
  • 1936
    Ma and the Auto

    Ma and the Auto

    Ma and the Auto

    01936HD

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

    Ma and the Auto
  • 2003
    The ErlKing

    The ErlKing

    The ErlKing

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    This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

    The ErlKing
  • 2024
    Four Haikus

    Four Haikus

    Four Haikus

    02024HD

    Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and...

    Four Haikus
  • 1935
    Early in the Mornin'

    Early in the Mornin'

    Early in the Mornin'

    01935HD

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

    Early in the Mornin'
  • 2023
    The Great Metaphor

    The Great Metaphor

    The Great Metaphor

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    What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

    The Great Metaphor
  • 1935
    Couldn't Live Without You

    Couldn't Live Without You

    Couldn't Live Without You

    01935HD

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

    Couldn't Live Without You
  • 2024
    to, from

    to, from

    to, from

    02024HD

    By poet Olivia Douglass, this work has been commissioned by Other Parties in response to Bushman. to, from, gets to the heart of the tensions...

    to, from
  • 2011
    Onion

    Onion

    Onion

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    A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

    Onion
  • 2014
    If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat

    If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat

    If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat

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    "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...

    If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat
  • 1993
    Hovering Over the Water

    Hovering Over the Water

    Hovering Over the Water

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    Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert...

    Hovering Over the Water