Diary Movies

A young man embarks on a journey through iceland, led by the diary of his late grandfather. On their journey, he and his friend follow not only these...

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 y...

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and despera...

A young man, unsatisfied with his life and overwhelmed by adulthood, reminisces about childhood to a dangerous degree.

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

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

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship between Fr...

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

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 an...

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He realizes...

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 is...

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony o...

Writing late becomes usual, we are always too late. Boris was my alter ego and I was his alter ego. Now that he is no longer here, I can be honest.

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 befo...

In this video series an individual confronts fears and, through the process of confessing directly to the camera, transcends trauma. It is also about...

Documentary about British author and actor Alan Bennett. Recorded over the course of a year, the film features a number of intimate encounters with Be...

A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left behind...

Farewell letter to an old love.

The narrative unfolds from the point-of-view of a single character named Roach. As part of the filmmaking process, he's been given a camera to documen...

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