Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's...

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

An exploration of love and loss in Paris.

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

The story of a young Saudi poet who receives the prestigious title The Prince of Poets (Amir Al-Shu’ara), and is later nominated to recite a...

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’ dissects the...

Based on the poem by Keaton St. James, the film follows two young teenage boys and the people they interact with on the day of the end of the world.

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental...

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.