Diary: A Tool for Self-Reflection and Artistic Exploration

Do you keep a diary? Come and bring it with you!  And if you don’t, it’s worth trying — bring that one too! Experience the power of keeping a diary as a creative and self-reflective process. We will explore how a diary can support deeper reflection on both artistic practice and life itself. You’ll try out two techniques that can help you grasp your projects or cope with stress: Drawing for Release and Daily Inventory. We will also introduce a partial artistic research project exploring how diary-keeping helps to reflect on directorial choices and on the role of the director and researcher during the demanding process of documentary filmmaking.

The workshop will be led by Hana Muchová as part of the project “Possibilities of Working with a Diary in Documentary Filmmaking” developed at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Specific University Research, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports 2025).