In 1968 the Department of Film started its ongoing Cineprobe (now Modern Mondays) series with a screening of Jim McBride and L. M. Kit Carson’s low-budget 16mm film David Holzman’s Diary. This American maverick classic, among the first examples of self-referential film, has a simple premise: a young man thinks it would be interesting to film his life—turns out he’s wrong. Presented in a new, digitally restored version courtesy of Kino Lorber, David Holzman’s Diary is a prescient send-up of the kind of onanistic egotism endemic to the age of Facebook and YouTube.
Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film.
David Holzman’s Diary. 1967. USA. Directed by Jim McBride