Visual Poem Movies

  • 1970
    World on a string

    World on a string

    World on a string

    01970HD

    A ferry drifts along the Weser. Slow 16mm images of boats, railings, industrial shores, and cranes—scarred and clouded by the river itself,...

    World on a string
  • 2026
    People Like Ghosts

    People Like Ghosts

    People Like Ghosts

    02026HD

    A nighttime montage of strangers drifting through the city, People Like Ghosts is an experimental visual poem exploring modern isolation, silent...

    People Like Ghosts
  • 1970
    Rumination

    Rumination

    Rumination

    01970HD

    Rumination is a quiet reflection on a fractured relationship, told through memory, distance, and unanswered questions. Looking back, the narrator...

    Rumination
  • 2023
    Everything Will Be Forgotten in Korea

    Everything Will Be Forgotten in Korea

    Everything Will Be Forgotten in Korea

    02023HD

    Occasionally, "your own" life is only based on the lifes of the rest. The human being, cutted off from the cultural and social, finds things in...

    Everything Will Be Forgotten in Korea
  • 2023
    Rebecca

    Rebecca

    Rebecca

    02023HD

    A poem told through Rebecca, the American Girl Doll.

    Rebecca
  • 2025
    Change and Don't

    Change and Don't

    Change and Don't

    02025HD

    An intimate visual poem explores the delicate balance between change and stillness, inspired by Ethan TK Trinh’s 2025 poetry collection,...

    Change and Don't
  • 2026
    MOROSE

    MOROSE

    MOROSE

    02026HD

    MOROSE
  • 2023
    Migajas

    Migajas

    Migajas

    102023HD

    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...

    Migajas
  • 2021
    Sitting Idle

    Sitting Idle

    Sitting Idle

    02021HD

    Sitting Idle (2021) is a meandering, meditative visual poem that follows the life of a nameless character over the course of a year - as he traverses...

    Sitting Idle
  • 2022
    the poem exists, the book does not

    the poem exists, the book does not

    the poem exists, the book does not

    02022HD

    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...

    the poem exists, the book does not
  • 1970
    The Sailor and the Star

    The Sailor and the Star

    The Sailor and the Star

    01970HD

    This is the story of a sailor. How he got lost at sea, and found his way back.

    The Sailor and the Star
  • 2023
    FALL

    FALL

    FALL

    02023HD

    FALL
  • 2025
    Big Scruff

    Big Scruff

    Big Scruff

    02025HD

    A visual album made to accompany the EP of the same name by I.L.L.

    Big Scruff
  • 2024
    Pretty Land And Green Its Sighs

    Pretty Land And Green Its Sighs

    Pretty Land And Green Its Sighs

    02024HD

    A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

    Pretty Land And Green Its Sighs
  • 1984
    Longing for Spring

    Longing for Spring

    Longing for Spring

    01984HD

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

    Longing for Spring
  • 2022
    LIVESTOCK

    LIVESTOCK

    LIVESTOCK

    02022HD

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

    LIVESTOCK
  • 2023
    the flowers and sorrow he gave me

    the flowers and sorrow he gave me

    the flowers and sorrow he gave me

    22023HD

    Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the...

    the flowers and sorrow he gave me
  • 2015
    Tears in Rain

    Tears in Rain

    Tears in Rain

    02015HD

    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...

    Tears in Rain
  • 2024
    Our Punjabi Market - a poetry film

    Our Punjabi Market - a poetry film

    Our Punjabi Market - a poetry film

    102024HD

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

    Our Punjabi Market - a poetry film
  • 2026
    Butterfly

    Butterfly

    Butterfly

    02026HD

    A nervous young poet takes the stage to perform, but as he speaks, his words are shown through a symbolic inner world where self-confinement takes...

    Butterfly