Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 short documentary by Jim McBride.