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.

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

Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa 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...

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...

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

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

Two teen boys living in an isolated house in the mountains contemplate their existence while maintaining a video diary of their daily lives.

One entry from a daily visual journal.

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.

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...

Filmmaker Jon Beaton has always felt like an outsider. When TikTok’s powerful algorithm starts sending him content from the app’s...

Soare is a musician with too little inspiration and too many neurons baked from smoking weed. One day, he decides that his life has become too...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

A woman walks, loves, eats and washes herself, dances. It all takes place in a bedroom. At times flashbacks, or visualizations of previous or...

The day with the sky neither too blue nor too grey. With a hint of red. The train crowded and the backpacks between the feet. The loves on every...

In 2022, when the economic crisis in her native country was at its peak, she decided to visit her family there. She turned her short trip into a...

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

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

A short documentary by Jim McBride.