Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

La deuxième femme

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

2008

And in shallow waters, then i learned not to swim but to lie

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

2018

Fale Comigo Verão: O diário de um cineasta amador

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

2023

Video Album 5: The Thursday People

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

1987

Mathilde

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 essa

1985

June

A letter of love to my past self who discovered himself.

2024

Birth of a Nation

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

1997

Begins (โผบิน)

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 fr

2024

Eautopsie

A glimpse of life through movement and memory, negotiating a narrative through images and sounds both personal and found, private and public, recounti

2024

As Janelas Me Diziam Que Os Carros Cor De Lembrança Ainda Percorriam as Movimentadas Ruas do Esquecimento

2024

American Teenagers

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

2022

this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

2024

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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

2000

In the Bathtub of the World

On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.

2001

My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

2009

VEREDA

2025

Lost, Lost, Lost

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

1976

beer cans under my bed

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

2024

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

1986

Day Tripper

A woman walks, loves, eats and washes herself, dances. It all takes place in a bedroom. At times flashbacks, or visualizations of previous or followin

1966