Poetry Film Club Festival and Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival release competition shortlists Poetry Film Live's festival in Bristol on October 18 and the 13th Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival on November 3 have released their shortlists.

Submissions are open for Cadence Video Poetry Festival Submissions are open until January 15 for the Northwest Film Forum's 2026 Cadence Video Poetry Festival in Seattle.

Rain by Mike Hoolboom A videopoem by Canadian filmmaker Mike Hoolboom with a distinctly prophetic, left-populist flavor.

Because We Can by Ian Gibbins An exemplary videopoem by Ian Gibbins, blending the natural and the artificial into a poetic whole.

Helen Dewbery launches Kickstarter to support publication of a guide to making poetry films UK poetry filmmaker Helen Dewbery is turning her years of experience in creating poetry films and leading workshops into a book called How to Make a Poetry Film: A handbook for poets. How to Make a Poetry…

Single-use Plastic Bag by Abeer Ameer UK filmmaker Janet Lees adapted a viral poem by Iraqi British poet Abeer Ameer. She told me in an email, Like many of her poems, this has stayed with me in a visceral way since I read it. For a long time I have been wanting to make a film with Abeer’s poetry,…

Midwest Video Poetry Fest 2025 open for submissions Submissions to the Wisconsin-based Midwest Video Poetry Fest opened on 1 June, with a deadline of 1 December. Though this is a screening in the Midwest, we are seeking work from poets, filmmakers and artists from around the country, and even from…

Dark by James E. Kenward A film by Jane Glennie in collaboration with poet/performer James E. Kenward. Here's the description from Kenward's website: Award-winning Faber and Faber poetry-film director Jane Glennie came together with poet James E. Kenward on 'Dark', made with Jane's unique…

The making of “Dark”: an interview with James E. Kenward British poet and filmmaker James E. Kenward has a unique approach to musical composition in his poetry films. I wanted to learn a little bit more about that... Dave Bonta: So many otherwise brilliant poetry films are ruined for me by a…

ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival program announced ZEBRA, the world's most prestigious poetry film festival and competition, is fast approaching. Here's the English version of the latest press release from Haus für Poesie.

Call for work: Videobardo International Videopoetry Festival Videobardo Archive and International Videopoetry Festival, founded in 1996, opens its call for submissions to be part of a new edition of the Festival, which will take place in November in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lost Stream by Fiona Tinwei Lam Vancouer-based poet Fiona Tinwei Lam recites a poem from her 2019 collection Odes & Laments. I found this animation by Quinn Kelly unexpectedly moving—especially when the flow of the creek is replaced by the flow of traffic on a divided highway. Uploaded late last…

Call for entries: 13th Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition "Submissions are now Ópen," they tell us. Submissions are open from 1st May – 31st August 2025. Entries made outside of these dates cannot be considered. You may submit as many films as you like – each must interpret or convey a poem (present…

A Neoprimitive Aesthetic: Matt Mullins’ presentation for the 2025 REELPoetry Videopoetry Festival A major American videopoet reflects on how he got into making videopoems and what he's learned along the way.

Call for work: Nature & Culture International Poetry Film Festival The Poetic Phonotheque is "a global archive preserving and sharing contemporary poetry through voice, film, and print," based in Copenhagen, with several international partners, including Kultivera in Sweden, Write4Word in Wales,…

Call for work: Drumshanbo 2025 Short poetry films from around the world are solicited for The 4th Annual Drumshanbo Written Word Poetry Film Competition.

Full schedule online for the 12th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens The upcoming International Video Poetry Festival in Athens will feature 97 films and 33 live performances from 43 countries on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 April at the Empros theater in Athens.

Submissions are open for a brand-new Poetry Film Festival to be held on the Bristol Docks on October 18th, from @helendewbery.bsky.social and @chaucercameron.bsky.social

Ghosts as Cocoons by Wallace Stevens A new film by Belgian artist and musician Marc Neys, AKA Swoon, deploying text-on-screen for a lesser-known poem by Wallace Stevens. Marc doesn't make videopoems at anything like the rate he used to ten years ago, but it's good to see that he hasn't lost his…

A videopoem addressing the political moment we find ourselves in by experimental video artist Dee Hood, a professor emerita at Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida. www.movingpoems.com/2025/02/no-a...