Anne Charlotte Robertson

Anne Charlotte Robertson is an American filmmaker born on March 27, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, and died of cancer on September 15, 2012 in Framingham, Massachusetts. She is considered a pioneer of experimental cinema in the first person. Anne Charlotte Robertson grew up in a middle-class Protestant family. She studied film in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Arts where she is a student of the great American master of the Super 8 Saul Levine. She also chooses this medium which, at the time, was the most accessible. She is also influenced by filmmakers as different as Ed Pincus or Carolee Schneemann. Five Year Diary - A monumental self-portrait, a gigantic 36-hour corpus, divided into 85 reels with a duration of 26 minutes, Five Year Diary is the most important work of the filmmaker. Covering two decades, this chronicle of her daily life in Massachusetts is a vulnerable documentation of the filmmaker's struggle to survive her depression. Dark and intense interior monologues, tinged here and there with the humor and self-deprecation of the artist's consciousness of her illness, give this therapeutic experience in the cinema its fullest depth. (Wikipedia France)

Cast

Five-Year Diary

Five Year Diary, Reel 9: Happy Birthday ’33 (March 17⁠–27, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 3: Christmas 1981 New Year 1982 (December 22, 1981–January 9, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 81: Mourning Emily (September 27, 1994–January 29, 1995)

Five Year Diary, Reel 26: First Semester Graduate School (February 28–May 20, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 40: Visiting Grandmother ‘84, Wyoming (July 17–August 26, 1984)

Depression Focus Please

Five Year Diary, Reel 2: The Definitions of Fat and Thin (December 13–22, 1981)

Five Year Diary, Reel 1: The Beginning Thanksgiving (November 3–December 13, 1981)

Five Year Diary, Reel 47: I Thought the Film Would End (October 21–November 2, 1986)

Five Year Diary, Reel 83: Untitled (December 24, 1995–March 18, 1997)

Talking to Myself

My Cat, My Garden, and 9/11

Five Year Diary, Reel 31: Niagara Falls (August 19–28, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 22: A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy (August 23–September 1, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 80: Emily Died (May 14–September 26, 1994)

Crew

My Cat, My Garden, and 9/11

Talking to Myself

Depression Focus Please

Five-Year Diary

Spirit of '76 (Self-portrait)

Five Year Diary, Reel 81: Mourning Emily (September 27, 1994–January 29, 1995)

Five Year Diary, Reel 83: Untitled (December 24, 1995–March 18, 1997)

Five Year Diary, Reel 3: Christmas 1981 New Year 1982 (December 22, 1981–January 9, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 40: Visiting Grandmother ‘84, Wyoming (July 17–August 26, 1984)

Five Year Diary, Reel 22: A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy (August 23–September 1, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 26: First Semester Graduate School (February 28–May 20, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 47: I Thought the Film Would End (October 21–November 2, 1986)

Five Year Diary, Reel 23: A Breakdown (and) After the Mental Hospital (September 1–December 13, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 1: The Beginning Thanksgiving (November 3–December 13, 1981)

Five Year Diary, Reel 31: Niagara Falls (August 19–28, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 80: Emily Died (May 14–September 26, 1994)

Five Year Diary, Reel 9: Happy Birthday ’33 (March 17⁠–27, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 2: The Definitions of Fat and Thin (December 13–22, 1981)

Melon Patches, or Reasons to Go On Living

Five Year Diary, Reel 27: Visiting North Carolina Again (May 21–24, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 18: Raspberry Season (July 3–15, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 29: New York City & the Berry Season (June 29–August 4, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 16: Soon to be Unemployed (June 9–24, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 21: Still Berrypicking (August 12–23, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 28: Leaving the Apartment and Moving Home (May 25–June 28, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 19: Heat of Summer (July 16–28, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 20: Blackberry Season (July 29–August 11, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 25: Getting Fat Again (January 27–February 27, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 17: End of the Job (June 25–July 2, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 30: Visiting Grandmother ’83 (August 5–18, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 24: Christmas 1982 New Year 1983 (December 14, 1982–January 26, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 4: My Father Died (January 10–21, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 5: Mourning (January 23–30, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 6: The Lights of the Bardo (January 30–February 26, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 7: Home Alone (February 26–March 6, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 8: Leaving my Father’s Office (March 7–16, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 10: Easter (March 28–April 19, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 36: Another Nervous Breakdown (January 7–February 9, 1984)

Five Year Diary, Reel 33: A Crush on Doctor Who (October 12–November 18, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 39: Yet Another Breakdown (May 19–July 17, 1984)

Five Year Diary, Reel 35: Christmas 1983 and New Year 1984 (December 7, 1983–January 6, 1984)

Five Year Diary, Reel 32: Losing Weight (August 29–October 11, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 37: After the Mental Hospital Again (February 16–April 6, 1984)

Five Year Diary, Reel 38: Watching Music Television (April 6–May 18, 1984)

Five Year Diary, Reel 34: Doctor Who Convention and the Day After (November 19–December 6, 1983)

Five Year Diary, Reel 14: North Carolina and More Data Entry (May 9–12, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 11: Data Entry (April 19–30, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 12: Reunion (April 30–May 6, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 13: Visiting in North Carolina (May 6–9, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 15: Even More Data Entry (May 13–June 19, 1982)

Five Year Diary, Reel 46: Yet Another Breakdown (Then) Doctor Who Convention (May 18–October 20, 1986)

Five Year Diary, Reel 42: Christmas ‘84, New Year ’85 + Gaining Weight (December 25, 1984–March 10, 1985)

Five Year Diary, Reel 43: Myself Day-to-Day (and) Visiting Grandmother (March 11–August 26, 1985)

Five Year Diary, Reel 44: Last Semester of Graduate School (August 27–December 13, 1985)

Five Year Diary, Reel 48: The Fifth Anniversary of this Film (November 3–8, 1986)

Five Year Diary, Reel 49: Lunar Phases (November 8–December 5, 1986)

Five Year Diary, Reel 50: Christmas ‘86 and New Year ’87 (December 5, 1986–January 11, 1987)

Five Year Diary, Reel 41: California, Massachusetts & Wyoming (August 28–December 25, 1984)

Five Year Diary, Reel 45: Christmas ‘85, New Year ’86, Then Employed Again (December 13, 1985–May 17, 1986)

Five Year Diary, Reel 57: Employment (and) Birthday 39 (January 23–April 10, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 55: Breakdown Wasn’t Filmed (October 6–November 20, 1987)

Five Year Diary, Reel 58: California Show (April 14–May 1, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 51: Another Breakdown: Will I Ever Mend? (January 12–February 17, 1987)

Five Year Diary, Reel 56: Christmas ‘87, New Year ’88 (November 21, 1987–January 22, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 52: Preparing for a Big Show (and) Happy Birthday 38 (February 17–March 28, 1987)

Five Year Diary, Reel 53: CinnamonAmy Cat Died (March 30–June 30, 1987)

Five Year Diary, Reel 54: Still Mourning My Dear Friend Cat (July 4–October 5, 1987)

Five Year Diary, Reel 59: BIG RELIGIOUS/POLITICAL LETTER (May 4–22, 1988)

Letter to the Rabbi, the Ayatollah, and the Pope

Sign of Jesus is the Fish

Letter to my Men

To My Family and Friends: Will and Testament

Fat Talks to Thin

Five Year Diary, Reel 66: Hanukah, Christmas ’88, New Year ’89 (November 26, 1988–March 7, 1989)

Five Year Diary, Reel 68: Plenty of Doctor Who (June 10–September 15, 1989)

Five Year Diary, Reel 67: So Much Doctor Who (March 7–June 4, 1989)

Five Year Diary, Reel 63: Family (and) Gardens (August 7–28, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 65: Big Show in New York City (September 26–November 26, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 69: Guess Who, Breakdowns (October 4–November 21, 1989)

Five Year Diary, Reel 70: Christmas ’89, New Year ’90, Flashbacks and Resolutions (December 23, 1989–February 3, 1990)

Five Year Diary, Reel 60: New York City Peace March (May 22–June 27, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 61: More Doctor Who (June 27–July 18, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 64: Visiting Grandmother ’88 (August 29–September 25, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 62: In a Performance (July 18–August 1, 1988)

Five Year Diary, Reel 72: Still on Probation (and) Visiting Grandmother ‘90 (May 7–September 3, 1990)

Quitting Smoking

Five Year Diary, Reel 73: Untitled (September 3–December 1, 1990)

Five Year Diary, Reel 74: Christmas ’90, Iraq, and Getting Religion (December 2, 1990–May 7, 1991)

Five Year Diary, Reel 77: Untitled (Dates Unknown)

Five Year Diary, Reel 71: ON PROBATION, ETC. (February 3–June 6, 1990)

Five Year Diary, Reel 75: Untitled (May 7–October 30, 1990)

Five Year Diary, Reel 76: Fall to Spring (October 30, 1991–March 28, 1992)

Five Year Diary, Reel 82: Untitled (Dates Unknown)

Five Year Diary, Reel 84: Untitled (Dates Unknown)

Five Year Diary, Reel 79: Untitled (Dates Unknown)

Five Year Diary, Reel 78: Untitled (November 7, 1993–April 2, 1994)

Rotting Pumpkin

Out a Window: Self-portrait

Merry Christmas 1984