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...

The untold state of mind dealing with an incurable disease. One is wondering if there's still a dream to achieve in life. One is running as if this...

An enigmatic glimpse of life through precarious vignettes, propelling a narrative through a nebulous and opaque structure that sutures the...

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

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and...

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

Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries charts the 'War on Terror' era of Bush and Blair through a seven-part...

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

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 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...

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.