"Your Life is Not a Very Good Script": David Holzman's Diary and Documentary Expression in Late-1960S America and Beyond‪.‬

Autobiographical films and videos bear witness to our lives in all its variation, and these lives are untidy and contradictory: we have passions, both creative ones and destructive ones; we betray each other and do surprisingly heroic things; we experience profound joy and almost crushing emotional pain; we are both cruel and compassionate. All these experiences and feelings fuel the autobiographical act. Because of this, the autobiographical film or video can break a silence and by doing so lessen the isolation and despair that we often experience, both personally and culturally. --Michelle Citron (1)