Movies: Diary film

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

A person narrates themself making a salad...

Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female impressionist painters....

An intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing....

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....

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, ...

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against or conforming to....

Soare is a musician with too little inspiration and too many neurons baked from smoking weed. One day, he decides that his life has become too chaotic, so he begins writing a guide for surviving the moments when his reality stops making sense. Passin...

An average nobody explores the struggle of self-recognition through the lens of a photographer who has spent his life documenting everything....

A short documentary by Jim McBride....

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...

The untold state of mind dealing with an incurable disease. One is wondering if there's still a dream to achieve in life. One is running as if this free spirit of mine has never been taken away....