Movies: Diary film

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple wit...

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order....

A young girl turns into an A-List celebrity over night when her private journal is accidently published and becomes a best-seller....

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....

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A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....

A young artist journals her surroundings in an attempt to discover the meaning of art....

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963....

A person narrates themself making a salad...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

A diary film about fathers and the legacies they leave behind after their passing. Starting from the home movies of a 1960s Sardinian family, a dialogue made of contrasts: on one hand, Franz Kafka's "Letter to His Father", and on the other, images de...

One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.' Like the contemporaneous films by O'Leary's more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trip...

A letter of love to my past self who discovered himself....

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of youth. In this film, Evandro Scorsin turns the cameras on himself as he deals with the dilemmas of th...

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related illness...

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see...

A short documentary project that attempts to encapsulate what it looks and feels like to be an American Teenager in 2022....

A short documentary by Jim McBride....

On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result....

'Eigi Sylhet' is a journey of my self-discovery. With no narrative, this two-minute diary film paints a portrait of my resilience and artistic awakening, weaving together my self-portraits and cityscapes captured in 2018, a year I spent in oblivion, ...