Tocirea(1990)

Dear Basketball(en)

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

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.

Jellyhead Goes on a Walk(en)

A poem about a person with jelly for a head.

No Leaders, Please(en)

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

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem(en)

Tim Burton's original poem narrated by Christopher Lee.

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.

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

Em direção à Ítaca(pt)

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.

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)

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.

No hay Eco en el Eco(en)

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

Uncle Jake(it)

I Would Like to Live on the Moon(en)

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

Onion(en)

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

Overload(en)

A spoken word piece about an autistic person experiencing sensory overload in a world that rejects their existence.

At Peace(es)

A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This leads to a conversation that will put their thoughts and faith in life to test.