This short film, directed by Aleksandar Kostic and narrated by Miki Manojlovic, was inspired by Danilo Kiš's story “A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.” Kiš, a Yugoslavian writer who was influenced by Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges, died in 1989.

In this short film by Alessandro Novelli, each letter of the alphabet is illustrated based on the first letter of a font name.

In Lee Goldberg's short film Remaindered, which is based on one of Goldberg's short stories and was shot on a budget of fifteen hundred dollars, a once-famous author desperate to regain his lost glory travels the back-roads of middle America selling remaindered fifth-editions of his first book out of the trunk of his car.

This short video promoting independent booksellers puts the words of Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, and other famous novelists in the mouths of ordinary citizens.

An unexpected reunion in a bookstore gets awkward in this short film starring Anthony Ahern, Alison Bell, and Petra Kalive and written and directed by Miklos Janek.

In this silent film by Richard Grunn, a common man discovers "the mysterious power of poetry."

This short film, based on the poem "The Straightforward Mermaid" by Matthea Harvey, was filmed and directed by Ani Simon-Kennedy. It was selected for the Short Film Corner at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. You can read the poem, which appeared in the New Yorker last August, here.

In the eleven-minute film In the Spotlight (2007), starring Michelle Tea, Guinevere Turner, and Clint Catalyst, with music by Emily Wells, writer and director Hilary Goldberg presents the story of an aspiring author who is offered the chance to be the front person for a literary hoax and discovers a fate far worse than rejection.

Aspring novelist (and "Insane Lunatic") James Andrew Wilson takes us through the five emotional stages of writing a novel.

This short film by Tucker Capps, featuring music by Goldmund, is inspired by "First," an essay from Ryan Van Meter's debut collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now, to be published next month by Sarabande Books.