The film Accident (2006) was created by filmmakers Cao Guimarães and Pablo Lobato through a process of poetic composition using the name of 20 cities in the state of Minas Gerais. The article discusses how the procedures for making this feature film, as well as its result, build different relationships between poetry and cinema. The film evokes varied traditions between text and cinematism, including avant-garde productions that have brought the word’s materiality to the cinema, writing experiences inspired by Tristan Tzara, and the space issue in literature. Moreover, the particular way by which poetry is used in Accident will also be investigated through the revision of concepts such as "textual film", "cinepoetry", "dispositif" and "cinema of poetry".