I’m always looking for poetry films that mobilise what Hollis Frampton called ‘the counter-machine to the machine of language’, i.e., the visual. Frampton has been my guide to understanding how poetic language might be translated to cinema. I’ve written a forthcoming book on the subject called Perpetual Speech: Hollis Frampton’s Gloria! as Lyric Poem. So Gloria! has got to be in my list. It’s at the end.

Subterranean Homesick Blues (song by Bob Dylan)
D.A. Pennebaker, from the documentary Dont Look Back, 1967

The Grass is Greener (poem by Ivor Cutler)
Orla Mc Hardy, 2001

Anna Blume (poem by Kurt Schwitters)
Vessela Dantcheva (main animator Ebele Okoye), 2010

Höpöhöpö Böks
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, 2010

The Grammar Tables: The Great and The Dead (poem by Pat Boran)
Helen Horgan, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJd_jOw4x1o

American Haikus (poetry by Jack Kerouac)
Orla Mc Hardy, 2006
http://vimeo.com/10469119

Zorns Lemma
Hollis Frampton, 1970

Walden
Jonas Mekas, 1969

(see longer selection on UbuWeb)

Зеркало/The Mirror (poems by Arseny Tarkovsky)
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975
https://vimeo.com/44315068

Gloria!
Hollis Frampton, 1979