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...

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....

A short film by artist and writer Sarah Roselle Khan that includes footage of everyday British-Pakistani culture, scenes shot in Hackney Marshes and archival material. Combined with a confessional poetic monologue and an original score by musician Na...

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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...

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....

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

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

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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 common with the other of the antipodes. An essay of the common and the different. The protagonist writes a...

Poetry, interviews and conversations between plants, still trying to find out what is love....

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

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’ dissects the idea of the book in both a literal & philosophical way. Books are usually thought of as 2D, static, fixed...

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?...

Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the film presents us the love overgrowing between two young man, Alex and Luís, their comfortable couple routine, ...

An experimental visual poem about a sick lonely old man stays in his big empty house, dreaming of a glorious life that he could have. In this dream, he plays a Rubik's Cube, which connects the memories of his prime in a paralleled universe, the chapt...

Translated from a self-reflexive Chinese saying, Yun Lam Li's I thought of you often, this film is a visual poem about the meaning of aging within a culture that is not one's own....

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...

"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 people who spend time with them. Centered on the story of the legendary Goat Man - a nomadic figure who spent mo...