Diary Film Movies

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

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

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...

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.

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La...

Farewell letter to an old love.

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.

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...

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...

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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

IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at...

The director goes to the city of Cuenca in Spain, Castilla-La Mancha for Erasmus. In this process, he records his experiences, days, and trips with a...

A person narrates themself making a salad

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and...

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.

'star born brutal' is a diaristic exploration of masculinity after experiencing a schizophrenic breakdown. Static memories recur and dissolve in a...