2008 Films

Diaries (1971-1976)

• Diaries (1971-1976)

  
  1981. USA. 195 mins. Directed by Ed Pincus. Produced by Ed Pincus.

  Pioneering documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus (Black Natchez, 1967; The Axe in the Attic, 2007)embodied the utopian hopes, fears, and neuroses of the sixties generation when he set out to create an enlightened, unconventional life through his filmmaking practice. In this intensely personal memoir, Pincus introduces us to his wife Jane (a member of the collective that wrote the pioneering feminist health care book, Our Bodies, Ourselves), his two children,and his assorted lovers and colleagues. As they struggle to find alternatives to cultural expectations regarding love, commitment, intimacy, and creative fulfillment, Pincus's subjects (himself included) articulate—and sometimes act out—the mundane problems and profound emotional traumas that plague human relations. Pincus's life and film career are suddenly and irrevocably altered in a disturbing series of events that culminates in a move to rural Vermont and a new life.

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