Diary Films: a course-to-be
Added 2018-10-19 09:08:47 +0000 UTCNext semester I am teaching a couse called "The Diaristic Mode in Film and Video." I a currently working to compile films to include in the syllabus, and there is a pretty wide array, although I worry that there are films and filmmakers out there working in the diary / journal mode who I am not aware of or who I am simply forgetting. Here's a list of what I have so far.
Jonas Mekas
Alain Cavalier
Agnès Varda
Anne Charlotte Robertson
Gina Kim
Caveh Zahedi
Ross McElwee
Joachim Pinto
David Perlov
Naomi Kawase
Richard Rogers
Sadie Benning
Kazuo Hara
Ed Pincus
early Peter Hutton
Nanni Moretti
George Kuchar
Su Friedrich
Jean-Luc Godard's video scenarios
Andrew Noren
John Smith
Coleen Fitzgibbon
Barbara Hammer
Lee Ming-Yu
John Price
Joe Gibbons
Chantal Akerman
David Larcher (specifically Granny's Is)
Françoise Romand
Curt McDowell
Nazli Dinçel
Jonathan Caouette
Gary Tarn
Andrew Kötting
Derek Jarman (Super-8 diaries)
Isiah Medina
Michel Auder
Sophie Hyde
Robert Beavers (esp. From the Notebooks of...)
Warren Sonbert
Dani Restack
but I'm sure I'm forgetting some major ones. And especially women and people of color. So please, any suggestions are welcome. And if you know of any strong books on the topic, feel free to mention those too. Thanks fam.
Comments
Maybe Guy Sherwin's "Messages" or his Short Film Series could be an interesting take
2018-12-07 20:40:33 +0000 UTCNote: I'm just going to keep adding to this list, as a kind of aide memoire. Please feel free to chime in in this comments section if you get some ideas.
Michael Sicinski
2018-10-19 20:31:14 +0000 UTC
