Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Somewhere between a diary and a filmed letter made while Caroline Champetier was shooting Benoît Jacquot's film L'Intouchable in India.

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...

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

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

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...

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...