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 person narrates themself making a salad

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...

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

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

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...

A glimpse of life through movement and memory, negotiating a narrative through images and sounds both personal and found, private and public,...

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

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

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...

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

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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

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

Haunted by 9/11 a young woman obsessively watches airplanes from her flat on the 25th floor of a housing estate in London's impoverished Tower...

An old man comes across a fascinating archive, then meets a woman who introduces him to the life of a banker, patron and philanthropist. A moving...

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...

'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...

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his...

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...