Yours Is the Earth
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"If you can dream—and not make dreams your master / If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim." This short film features Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," read by Tom O'Bedlam and filmed by Stephen Lister.
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Moving to the City
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"It can be warm and cold here at once." Poet Josh Lefkowitz recites a poem about New York City in a short film by Chris Follmer, which was a winner at the 2014 Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival.
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Vincent
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"While other kids read books like Go Jane Go / Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe." Written and directed by Tim Burton, and narrated by actor Vincent Price, this short film pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe and his famed poem "The Raven."
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Poetry Projection
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During the 2012 Nelson Arts Festival in New Zealand, artist Klaasz Breukel turned his van into a mobile projector to share poetry. In this video filmed by Daniel Allen, animated poems are projected onto walls in various locations.
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Phil Kaye
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"My mother taught me this trick. If you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning." In this short film, poet Phil Kaye performs his poem "Repetition," a personal piece about his struggles as a child dealing with his parents' divorce (including developing a stutter) and the power of words.
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The Smitten Author
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“It’s okay to love your writing. Just don’t love your writing.” This rather quirky clip acknowledges the inevitable approach of the year’s most saccharine holiday, Valentine’s Day.
The Last Bookshop
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What would a world without books look like? Written and codirected by Richard Dadd along with Dan Fryer, The Last Bookshop was shot in bookstores around London and Kent. "We love bookshops," the filmmakers write. "But we saw that many are going through tough times. We wanted to contribute to the cultural debate with our own celebration in support of these glorious independents and their shelves of treasures."
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Poets of Protest
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Manal Al Sheikh says it is dangerous for her to be a writer in her hometown of Nineveh, Iraq, so the exiled poet tries to inspire her readers online from Stavanger, Norway. This short film, directed by Roxana Vilk and aired on Al Jazeera English, explores the Middle East through its contemporary poets as they struggle to lead, to interpret, and to inspire.
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Traveling Troubadour
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This brief documentary by Kristin Moe follows Kendall Merriam, the Johnny Appleseed of poetry in Rockland, Maine. The video was produced at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine.
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DanseDance
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Directed by Julien Vallée, this short film is about rediscovering our daily surroundings. Get inspired today, and as you sit down to write, may your imagination make the objects around you live and move.
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