Poetry Movies

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

A poetry film about love, anxiety, and the cosmos.

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

The work is a video-poem, an exploration and reflection on the sense of vision as a tool to understand signifiers - but also and more importantly, as...

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

Various clips of jellyfish accompanied by the narration of two poems concerning a deity's lover.

Set in the lake country of Northern Minnesota, Cry of the Loon is a lyrical mediation on life, death, and the beauty of the natural world.

A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping freight trains across the country. Shot over the summer of 2013 on...

A woman cuts off her braids and finds relief in her natural hair.

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...

Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past...

Adapted from a poem by the director’s mother, "Baisure" in French can be translated as "Kissing Loaves,” the exact place where two loaves...

FOR KAPISIGA PAUL LYONS is dedicated to the beloved and dearly missed University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English professor Paul Lyons...