Movies: Visual poem

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connec...

Fed up with surviving on social crumbs, he takes a surreal flight to find a hidden truth. In a dull world, we need color, but what if this colorful idealization turns against you?...

Compiled from stock footage, Livestock is a visual poem exploring the digital, physical and metaphysical synergy of the modern workplace....

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Digital images decomposing in rain-like effects. A visual poem, trying to capture the poetics of a cinematic rain shower into the structure of its images. Still images from the 1982 science fiction film noir classic Blade Runner become animated, a fr...

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum....

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen...

A young boy recalls his grandmother’s guidance on how to cross the street, as he spiritually retraces this ritual in Manila—where memory, faith, and childhood converge....

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Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after encountering their muse....

“I love poetry because it makes me feel like my mind expands.” In Regard Silence, that's the very first sentence expressed—in sign language of course. Watching the poems signed by deaf people in this film has a similarly mind-expanding effect. That’s...

A reflection on loss and nature’s quiet observance in a small nook of the Ozarks. ...

A kaleidoscopic montage, interpreting the poem "Our Punjabi Market" by Kuldip Gill depicting the vibrance of the Punjabi Market at 49th and Main in East Vancouver, BC....

A ferry drifts along the Weser. Slow 16mm images of boats, railings, industrial shores, and cranes—scarred and clouded by the river itself, hand-processed with its water, marked by sediment and rust—dissolve into Annina Mossoni’s text: some people wa...

In this short from James Knight, a collection of Paul Celan's poetry is subjected to an electrical atomisation. Its words are severed from their material form. Knight composes through decomposition, pages disintegrate and reintegrate, and all the whi...

A girl comes to the city for studying for the first time....

Philophobic delves into the complexities of modern relationships, offering a glimpse into the emotional journey of a young woman navigating love and fear. Through the lens of her bedroom and the use of viewmaster reels, viewers witness her struggle t...

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A visual poem where a woman visits various Buddhist temples in Nara and winter turns to spring....

A granddaughter gives a new meaning to her grandma's death through previously unspoken memories....