1. Hell Frozen Over
Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness, emptiness, and vacuity, with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary mass-cultural entertainment. Juxtaposing "documentary" takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake, Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface.
2. Spellbound
Wingsuit BASE jumping is often presented as a thrill seeking adrenaline rush. Spellbound takes us deeper into the more contemplative aspects of jumping, as David Walden and friends venture into the mountains around his home in New Zealand. Beautiful scenery and hypnotic cinematography eject us from our daily lives into a world of air, earth and flight.
3. INFINITY minus Infinity
INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant, the black feminist poetics of the Brazilian philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva, and the racial formation of geology theorised by British geographer Kathryn Yusoff amongst others in order to envision a black feminist cosmos animated by the principles of mathematical nihilism.
4. Una pasión llamada Clara Lair (Una pasión llamada Clara Lair)
Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón Muñoz .
5. Karl's Perfect Day
A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
6. Bambi Hunter
Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.
7. Chris, sous le pont Laënnec (Chris, sous le pont Laënnec)
(Chris, sous le pont Laënnec)
8. Catalan Poets (Poetes catalans)
At underground film of the 1st Popular Festival of Catalan Poetry filmed in the Proce Theater in Barcelona on May 25, 1970, in solidarity with political prisoners. The participating poets were: Agustí Bartra, Joan Oliver , Salvador Espriu, Joan Brossa, Francesc Vallverdú and Gabriel Ferrater.
9. Bert Schierbeek/The Door (Bert Schierbeek/De deur)
A short portrait of poet Bert Schierbeek, who reads from his poetry.
10. Zurita, You Will See Not to See (Zurita, verás no ver)
An account of the experiences by poet and National Literature Award laureate Raúl Zurita, during his travels and his daily life, as he reflects on topics such as state terrorism and death
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
11. Nostalgies of the Far West (Nostalgias del Far West)
Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier , who comes back to Lautaro, on the south of Chile, the place where he was born.
12. An Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget (Pagsisiyasat sa Gabing Ayaw Lumimot)
Erwin Romulo, the late Alexis Tioseco’s best friend, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s untimely death in their home in Quezon City. Diaz makes use of one long take to allow Romulo an uninterrupted narration of the events. The pain of recalling is palpable.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
13. Batouk (Batouk)
This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower in comparison to the primitive dances of native Africans. A lone runner trains for a marathon, and a few animals are shown in their natural habitat. Commentary and modern jazz and pop music help to make this seem much longer than 66 minutes.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
14. The Eyes of Dante (Gli Occhi di Dante)
He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
15. My Love Awaits Me By the Sea (حبيبي بيستناني عند البحر)
Hasan Hourani, a Palestinian poet and illustrator, died aged 29 in Jaffa while trying to rescue his nephew from the sea. Shortly after, the filmmaker Mais Darwazah discovers his drawings and poems and feels drawn to Hourani's world— a universe outside space and time; a place of wonder, discovery, and freedom. Motivated by this kinship, Darwazah embarks on a journey to her homeland, Palestine: a place she has never known.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
16. Though You May Not Know (Aunque tú no lo sepas: la poesía de Luis García Montero)
An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Julia, toda en mí (Julia, toda en mí)
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
18. Dublin, Spoken.
Three spoken word poets and event organizers based in Dublin - Melissa Ridge, Hazel Hogan and Kasey Shelley - reveal the positive impact poetry has had on their lives, and the challenges they have turning their hobby into a career.
19. She
She is a full-length documentary about writer Aimée Baker and her award-winning poetry collection Doe. Doe is her quest to give voice to the missing and unidentified women of the United States.
20. Poet of His People
Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action, still footage, computer images, dance and poetry.
