Arguably the first "mockumentary," David Holzman’s Diary has been little seen but enormously influential on filmmakers over the years. The movie is besides enormously prescient about our current times, when apparently everyone records everything to do with their lives for the camera.Shot in 1967, it is a milepost in contemporary movie history. Brilliantly conceived and executed, it manages to simultaneously be very much of its time and very many years ahead of its time. The film tells the story of young David Holzman, A young adult male infatuated with filmmaking. Newly unemployed and harass with doubts and worries, Holzman thinks that filming his everyday existence will 'bring being into focus.' Staged to seem like a documental of a real person's life, Holzman's filming of his life starts to take over his life.The film never had a real communication run, and isn't available on DVD in the US. I ripped this off a UK import DVD so more people tin appreciate Jim McBride's work, one of the under-appreciated classics of the new Hollywood.