灯整 Movies

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

The first episode in a series of “adaptations” of poet Bernadette Mayer’s book Utopia that artist Beatrice Gibson envisions to...

A nobleman poet embarks on boat trip with two local fishermen. As they hop the bucolic islands he recalls his youthful tragic love, his artistic...

Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his...

A young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to win her with poetry — and a bit of help from his...

A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young...

Rival poets Reginald Bunthorne (a 'fleshy poet') and Archibald Grosvenor (an 'idyllic poet') vie for the affections of the lovely milkmaid Patience....

A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.

A film about the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla and his creative poetic process, his struggle to find an honest language, one which adheres to the...

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would silence him forever. They were wrong since his...

Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan...

Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

After her first film about Friederike Mayröcker, filmmaker Carmen Tartarotti decided to make a second film about the poet 15 years later.

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by...

When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is...

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard Hugo features readings of some of his most famous...

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

In the illustrious tradition of on-the-road, rambler cinema, Welcome to Nowhere (Bullet Hole Road) is a fresh, experimental take. Heavily reliant on...

This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over...