Tocirea(1990)

Dear Basketball(en)

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

Namoo(xx)

A narrative poem brought to life and an ode to a grandfather's passing, NAMOO—which translates to “tree” in Korean—follows the journey of a budding artist from beginning to end.

Apartment is as Quiet as Paper(ru)

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

Em direção à Ítaca(pt)

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem(en)

Tim Burton's original poem narrated by Christopher Lee.

No hay Eco en el Eco(en)

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

Kobzar 2015(uk)

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 Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop(ja)

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Afterimages(en)

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.

Pourvu qu'ils me laissent le temps(fr)

Onion(en)

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

I Would Like to Live on the Moon(en)

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

No Leaders, Please(en)

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

The Boy in the Bubble(en)

Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again. Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion forever.

Jellyhead Goes on a Walk(en)

A poem about a person with jelly for a head.

The ErlKing(en)

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

Uncle Jake(it)

The bread which once was dough(en)

The main morality is the chronic desire for rest Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and the bread Which once was dough front to back Relationship stops along the way You are not a wax-work in a glass Become the concept of freedom Freedom exists and must bring fruit The universe glancing for purchase reasoned

Stealing Beauty(en)

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

The Notebook(en)

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.