Forgetfulness by Billy Collins, animated by Julian Grey

Billy Collins reads his poem about memory slipping away, from the name of the author to the capital of Paraguay, and Julian Grey of Headgear animates each lost thing as it drifts off. The joke and the sadness arrive together, which is exactly how the poem works on the page. It belongs to a series of animated Collins poems that the agency JWT made for the Sundance Channel, and the copy online is the producers' own upload. Light, quick and funny, it is the ideal film to show someone who thinks poetry is not for them.