Diary Films: a course-to-be (Patreon)

Next 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.