Poet Movies

  • 2018
    Passing over the Hill

    Passing over the Hill

    Passing over the Hill

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    After the premature death of her son, Jung-sook learns to read and write by transcribing her late son's anthology, Passing Over the Hill. In search...

    Passing over the Hill
  • 2017
    Weltende

    Weltende

    Weltende

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    Weltende
  • 2016
    Tulsa: Ron Padgett

    Tulsa: Ron Padgett

    Tulsa: Ron Padgett

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    Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

    Tulsa: Ron Padgett
  • 2022
    Dans les yeux d'Elsa Triolet

    Dans les yeux d'Elsa Triolet

    Dans les yeux d'Elsa Triolet

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    Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

    Dans les yeux d'Elsa Triolet
  • 2017
    Karl's Perfect Day

    Karl's Perfect Day

    Karl's Perfect Day

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    A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

    Karl's Perfect Day
  • 2020
    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code

    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code

    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code

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    As Genesis and I were working on the documentary film "Change Itself” (released in 2016), we agreed that it would be great to also have Genesis...

    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code
  • 1976
    Karel Jonckheere

    Karel Jonckheere

    Karel Jonckheere

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    Documentary about the life and work of Flemish poet Karel Jonckheere looked at from four perspectives/professions: farmer, fisherman, sheepherder and...

    Karel Jonckheere
  • 2024
    Leisure, Utopic

    Leisure, Utopic

    Leisure, Utopic

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    The first episode in a series of “adaptations” of poet Bernadette Mayer’s book Utopia that artist Beatrice Gibson envisions to...

    Leisure, Utopic
  • 2015
    Paul Celan: the Poet Who Speaks Humanly

    Paul Celan: the Poet Who Speaks Humanly

    Paul Celan: the Poet Who Speaks Humanly

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    Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences of the Holocaust, he committed suicide in Paris in...

    Paul Celan: the Poet Who Speaks Humanly
  • 2024
    Recite With Your Hands

    Recite With Your Hands

    Recite With Your Hands

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    Yeong-in, an editor, poetry student, and deaf person, attends a public reading of a poetry collection she has edited. Yeong-in records the poet's...

    Recite With Your Hands
  • 1974
    A Poet's Life

    A Poet's Life

    A Poet's Life

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    A cautionary tale about workers who are neglected, lose hope, and fade away while businessmen prosper by selling out to foreign countries. As the...

    A Poet's Life
  • 1986
    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment

    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment

    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment

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    Concert in Boris Grebenshchikov's communal apartment (Leningrad, May 1986)

    Aleksandr Bashlachev - In BG's communal apartment