Diary Film Movies

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 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...

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.

A person narrates themself making a salad

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

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

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...

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...

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

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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

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

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

'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...

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...

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