Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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

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

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

Blending candid interviews, experimental moments, and reflective narration, this 55-minute personal doc explores what it means to grow up when the...

One entry from a daily visual journal.

While attempting to record life as it was, Arthur unintentionally documents his family’s unraveling.

Spanning over 70 years, two women recount their experiences growing up in Colombia and immigrating to Canada. Intersecting with key moments in...

At seventy-two, my grandmother Rosi wanders among the properties she built in the past as she searches for her place in the world while dealing with...

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...

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 experimental coming-of-age odyssey through someone's troubled mind, going from country to country, landscape to landscape, growing up in the...

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...