Anne Charlotte Robertson

Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949 – 2012) was a Super 8 filmmaker and diarist who lived in Framingham, Massachusetts. She began making films in the mid-1970s as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and completed her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1985. Robertson started keeping a diary at the age of 11, a practice that she sustained over the course of her life, culminating in over forty years of written, audio, and film diaries. In Robertson’s seventeen year long project Five Year Diary the gaze is drawn toward the domestic world, inviting the viewer to witness the internal intimacies of the everyday. In addition to Five Year Diary, Robertson made over thirty short films; mostly diaristic, including Apologies (1990), Talking to Myself (1985), Magazine Mouth (1983) and Melon Patches, or Reasons to Go On Living (1994). The presentation of Anne Charlotte Robertson’s films is made possible by the Harvard Film Archive.