Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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

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

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

Somewhere between a diary and a filmed letter made while Caroline Champetier was shooting Benoît Jacquot's film L'Intouchable in India.

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

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 filmed diary which chronicles two visits to the Olivas, a family of Spanish beekeepers from Salamanca, at the time of the honey harvest, in August...

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

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

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...

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...

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

A loose collection of scenes in Hong Kong shot over a five-year period, this film begins with the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and ends right before the...

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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

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...

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

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...