Diary Movies

Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search of hidden truths, new narratives and a better understanding...

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

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

Set in 1980s Sweden, an immigrant boy navigates a chaotic world of identity, love, and belonging. A kaleidoscopic journey through fragile places...

In 1901, Argentine naval officer José María Sobral joins Otto Nordenskjöld’s Swedish scientific expedition to Antarctica....

A young man writes a diary on his life in London as he comes to terms a painful experience.

One entry from a daily visual journal.

The discovery of a VHS tape of the artist's films on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller's identity.

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...

A young woman suffers from blackouts, begins to document her everyday life in the form of a video diary and comes across discoveries that she would...

After the making of my previous film (PLAY DEAD!), some unfinished business remained on my desktop. Home movies and various body horror films from my...

The story and diary of a young adult that, in order to learn and understand her own identity, had to learn to march the streets and the value of what...

Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging from a cliff and clinging to the only stone that...

One evening, finding my family's old camera, I asked myself why I had been filming my whole life since I was a child.

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...

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

A young woman drifts through a series of intimate encounters while writing in her diary about loneliness and her need to be seen.

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