The cinema of poetry

Introduction: An autobiography of enthusiasms

Part 1. Poetry and the narrative cinema in Europe

Pier Paolo Pasolini and "the cinema of 'poetry'"

Dimitri Kirsanoff's Ménilmontant

Ingmar Bergman's Primal scene

Andrey Tarkovsky's concept of poetry

Part 2. Poetry and the American avant-garde cinema

The dialectic of experience in Joseph Cornell's films

Lawrence Jordan's Magical instructions

Stan Brakhage's poetics

8 Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, and the polyvalent film

Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos.