He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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...

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

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

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.

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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

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...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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

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...

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

I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family together. To maintain love and happiness. I...