The Poet and the Bear (2006) is the second short film by Brian Philip Davis, a graduate of the University of Ulster in Belfast, about an art school dreamer.Synopsis
Ruth is a seventeen-year-old girl in rural Northern Ireland, torn between the comfortable trappings of her childhood home, and dreams of a more exciting and culturally satisfying life. Enchanted by the romantic writings of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, she awaits the results of her application to the best art college in Europe - the Paris School of Art. On the night before she receives news from the college, things then take a decidedly strange twist.