Diary Movies

One evening, finding my family's old camera, I asked myself why I had been filming my whole life since I was a child.

A young woman drifts through a series of intimate encounters while writing in her diary about loneliness and her need to be seen.

Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging from a cliff and clinging to the only stone that...

Emma, who lives in a small boring town, writes about her life and inner thoughts in her diary.

An unexpected event brings together an unlikely group of students.

In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to follow in the shadow of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately however, something...

Two sisters pontificate on the lives they could have led while observing the current guest, a listless writer, staying in their family’s...

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera...

A cow dreams away from the barn routine and goes out into the world, becomes a pop star, talks about world peace in the UN, takes a ride in space...

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression

Follows the story of the beloved and internationally acclaimed Swedish actress Lena Nyman, based on 17 paper bags with diaries that she left behind.

We follow Roach, a 17-year-old ex-junkie and squeegee punk living on the streets of Toronto and Montreal. As part of the filmmaking process, he's...

The discovery of a VHS tape of the artist's films on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller's identity.

How can the complex narrative of experience be understood as a coherent whole through the collection of states and thoughts? Since 2016, YR has...

After the passing of her mother, Lorena finds the diary that she kept all her life. The entries allow her to discover a different woman. Having grown...

A young woman suffers from blackouts, begins to document her everyday life in the form of a video diary and comes across discoveries that she would...

One neighborhood in New York City, March 2020: the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, the federal government is clueless, and life seems increasingly...