1. American Teenagers
A short documentary project that attempts to encapsulate what it looks and feels like to be an American Teenager in 2022.
2. La deuxième femme (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 Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith ... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
3. Maria
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 impressionist painters.
4. Clear years (Les années claires)
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 wasn’t told, and if someone had told me I wouldn’t have listened. I chose to live with my camera in my hand, filming the trajectory of feelings, from the golden age to the lost paradise, from being born to being reborn.
5. And in shallow waters, then i learned not to swim but to lie (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.
6. It’s so fucking empty (It's so fucking empty)
A Different point from the eyss of Yuval Shamshins's life, in the modern days of the Covid-19. The movie is built upon the small moments of life, full of Metaphors and Images in order to built a cinemathic perspective.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
7. Birth of a Nation
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
8. In the Land of Giants and Pygmies
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 natural resources, "primitive" tribes, customs and costumes in Europe's cast African possessions, and implies that the "dark continent" could benefit from the "civilizing" influences of home.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. Fale Comigo Verão: O diário de um cineasta amador (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 youth. In this film, Evandro Scorsin turns the cameras on himself as he deals with the dilemmas of the passing of time and the imposition of adulthood. In an exercise in autofiction where cinema and life merge, the film is also a cinematic love letter to the beloved masters . Coming and going between two countries and times, it records the vertigo of displacement and the reinventions inherent to an immigrant experience.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
10. 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 recovery.
11. Heart of a Tiger (Cœur de tigre)
Somewhere between a diary and a filmed letter made while Caroline Champetier was shooting Benoît Jacquot's film L'Intouchable in India.
12. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
13. 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 by chance", without concern for chronological order.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
14. June
A letter of love to my past self who discovered himself.
15. Lost, Lost, Lost
Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
16. Mathilde (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 essay that is part documentary, part film diary.
17. Urute vv (Urute vv)
An intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing.
18. My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
A short documentary by Jim McBride.
19. Erasmus Diary
The director goes to the city of Cuenca in Spain, Castilla-La Mancha for Erasmus. In this process, he records his experiences, days, and trips with a digital handheld camera and Super 8mm. A visual diary of the director is documented by witnessing the 2022 spring period in Spain and Portugal with images.
20. Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary (Ritorno a Khodorciur—Diario armeno)
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 son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian.
