Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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

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

An intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing.

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

One entry from a daily visual journal.

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...

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 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...

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...

Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female...

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

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