Diary Film Movies

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

This short experimental diary film reveals my struggles with mental illness in my adolescence and queer adulthood while simultaneously reflecting...

A passionate foodie loses his beloved hawker stalls to corporate pressure, he reluctantly turns to processed food he calls 'trash' in a moment of...

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

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...

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...

'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...

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 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...

Through phone call conversations, an aspiring Ilocano filmmaker relates to his mother working in Italy about his dreams and struggles while...

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...

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...

An unhinged, diaristic examination of devastating friendship breakups.

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

It compiles more than twenty years of passionately recorded “pictures from life” captured on super 8, that Vukica Djilas shot from 1970...

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against...

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.

An average nobody explores the struggle of self-recognition through the lens of a photographer who has spent his life documenting everything.

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