Ugly by Warsan Shire, directed by Anna Ginsburg

Warsan Shire's own reading of her poem, taken from the audiobook of Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, set to animation that Anna Ginsburg built from the paintings of the London artist Melissa Kitty Jarram. Each shot began as an original Jarram painting recreated digitally, so the film moves like a gallery coming to life. It was released for World Refugee Day 2019 and runs under two minutes, short enough to watch twice in a row, which it rewards. Ginsburg posted it on her own Vimeo page. Afterwards, the collection it comes from is the obvious next read.