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Anne Charlotte Robertson was an American filmmaker who pioneered personal documentary style filmmaking in the mid 1970’s.

Anne Charlotte Robinson was born on March 27, 1949 in Columbus, OH. When she was 11 she started keeping a diary and she never stopped. Her written diaries evolved into filmed diaries. Robinson started creating films in the mid-1970s as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts Boston and got her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1985. Robinson made over thirty (short) films from 1981 to 1997. Her films covered every day life, births, deaths and her struggles with mental illness. In 2001 she won The Guggenheim Fellowship in Filmmaking.

Robinson’s magnum opus was Five Year Diary (1981­–1997). The project was filmed over 15 years and totals 36 hours. The project takes up 83 Super-8 reels and chronicles everyday events, births, deaths, and her mental health. Robinson wanted a multi-media viewing experience of the film with audience members viewing in a “rec-room” setting while also reading her diary, and listening to audio recordings she made.

Robinson died of lung cancer in 2012. The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) acquired Robinson’s films after her death.