Creative marketing agency, The Glossary, uses David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech to create this inspirational, life affirming visual poem
A Capraesque story about life, love, and sugar packets.
An internet collaborative project, animators and motion artists brought their unique styles to 20 second segments of a Shane Koyczan poem in order to speak out against bullying.
Spoken word rock star Derrick Brown and the Holechek duo team up to deliver a moving piece describing where two lovers should meet after the lights get dim.
16 year old Adam cruelly teases a classmate. When he seeks her out to apologise, she has quite different plans for him. Years later, when least expected, the memory of this event comes back to haunt Adam.
A group of boys find themselves fascinated by the one rundown house in the neighborhood in this animated version of a Charles Bukowski poem.
With their entire lives stretching out before them, three young women make a secret pact. A poetic reflection on youth and all its firsts: sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches.
Tim Minchin’s poem of an evening dinner conversation about spirituality and the age-old battle between spirituality and science.
The simple line-drawn animation of a Billy Collins poem about the insignificant moment when your life flashes before your eyes.
A creation myth with a modern spin as a simple yet sophisticated animation.
Beautiful yet brash poetry of Canadian Al Purdy colorfully animated with crude painting and yellow flowers.
A poem by New York Poet Laureate Billy Collins, with inventive stop-motion and 3d animation. Part of a series.
A warped and absurd little fairytale about a Woodsman who is master of all he sees…—A Sundance 10/10 film:
This chillingly simple animation of Gabor Barabas poem “The Spider” cracks into the depths of the human cycle in a sharp three minutes. The Spider shows us the contradictions of life—love and death, beauty and indifference.
Shot by cell-phone on the streets of New York and Sydney, Mankind is no Island stitches together words from posters, displays and street signs—to create a poem of breathtaking beauty and emotion.
