Editing David Holzman's Diary (section)

== Distribution ==

A highly unconventional film made completely outside the studio system, ''David Holzman's Diary'' was not distributed theatrically.  However, it had early successes at film festivals, cinema clubs, and museums. It screened at the [[New York Film Festival]] and the [[San Francisco International Film Festival|San Francisco Film Festival]], and won awards at the [[International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg|Mannheim]], [[Brussels Film Festival (BRFF)|Brussels]], and Pesaro film festivals. It screened in 1968 at the Flaherty Seminar and the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1973 at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]]. Regarding the MoMA screening, L. M. Kit Carson said the museum, "was not happy that we did not make the contracted book," until the film won awards at festivals. "Then the Museum arranged for a high-profile Special Screening of the mock-doc – the beginning of a film-series called CINEPROBE" and then added the film to its collection.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=L.M. Kit |title=Hope for Film: David Holzman Was So Far Ahead Of The Parade You Might Have Missed He Was Leading It |journal=Indiewire |date=7 June 2011 |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/tedhope/archives/2011/06/07/david_holzman_was_so_far_ahead_of_the_parade_you_might_have_missed_he_was_l |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611030744/http://blogs.indiewire.com/tedhope/archives/2011/06/07/david_holzman_was_so_far_ahead_of_the_parade_you_might_have_missed_he_was_l |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 June 2011 |access-date=5 July 2018}}</ref>

In 1991, ''David Holzman's Diary'' was selected for preservation in the U.S. [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]], for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dirks |first1=Tim |title=National Film Registry Titles |url=http://www.filmsite.org/filmreg.html |website=AMC Filmsite |access-date=6 July 2018}}</ref> It has since had varying distribution on videotape, laserdisc, DVD, and online.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/David-Holzmans-Diary-L-M-Carson/dp/6302793939 Amazon.com]</ref><ref>[https://www.kinolorber.com/product/david-holzmans-diary-dvd Kino Lorber Home Video]</ref>