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...

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

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...

I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family together. To maintain love and happiness. I...

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

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

Footage from summer of 2018 that explores the passing of time regarding the little things in life.

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

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

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.

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

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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...

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...

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...

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