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Art Poetry, Part 1
Have you ever wondered what would it be like to mash-up Shakespeare’s poems with sound, music, pictures, and illustration? Art Poetry bringing people closer to poetry by representing a selection of the most significant poems in the history of literature in two-minute animation pieces.
Pragda Films | 2012 | 62 minutes
Art Poetry, Part 2
Have you ever wondered what would it be like to mash-up Shakespeare’s poems with sound, music, pictures, and illustration? Art Poetry bringing people closer to poetry by representing a selection of the most significant poems in the history of literature in two-minute animation pieces.
Pragda Films | 2012 | 67 minutes
Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians
The story of the prominent early Canadian literary figure - who was also a civil servant responsible for a brutal Native assimilation program.
Icarus Films | 1995 | 57 minutes
The Edge of Each Other's Battles
This powerful documentary is a moving tribute to legendary black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde, One of the most celebrated icons of feminism's second wave.
Women Make Movies | 2002 | 59 minutes
El Poeta
After his only son is murdered in the Mexican drug war, a mystic poet launches an international crusade to save his country.
Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 55 minutes
In Bed With Ulysses
Racing against impending blindness, a monomaniacal genius feeds off his own love life to create a novel he hopes will change the art form of fiction forever. And James Joyce got his way, but at an enormous price. The feature length documentary "In Bed With Ulysses" tells the provocative story of how the novel that is widely considered the greatest work of modern fiction was created.
Collective Eye Films | 2012 | 80 minutes
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr Leonard Cohen
Produced in 1965, this is an informal portrait of the Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter, Leonard Cohen. He is seen reading his poetry to a rapt audience and also alone, or relaxing with family and friends.
National Film Board of Canada | 1965 | 44 minutes
Last Days at Sea
Twelve-year-old Reyboy lives an idyllic childhood in an isolated fishing village where people catch their share and share their catch. But by summer's end, Reyboy will have to leave to study in the city. Imagining a world without greed, pollution and selfishness, Last Days at Sea reflects Reyboy's innocent perspective and immerses the viewer in the richness, beauty and joy of home—a place that lives inside us all, as something both real and intangible.
Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 72 minutes
Nice Chinese Girls Don't: Kitty Tsui
Nice Chinese Girls Don’t is a portrait of Kitty Tsui -- an iconic Asian American lesbian, poet, artist, activist, writer, and bodybuilder who came of age in the early days of the Women’s Liberation Movement in San Francisco.
Women Make Movies | 2019 | 20 minutes
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
A window into Puerto Rican literary culture in New York
GOOD DOCS | 1994 | 14 minutes
