Before he directed Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan,
Mother!, and The Whale, Darren Aronofsky was a 27-year-old would-
be filmmaker struggling to make his first feature, Pi (1998). This is
his diary of those years – alongside hundreds of never-before-seen
photos and materials pulled from Aronofsky’s extensive archives.
Featuring a new introduction by Darren Aronofsky; the complete
(and long out of print) Guerilla Diaries, Darren's journal entries chron-
icling the pre-production, production, and release of the film; script
notes, camera tests, cinematographer sketches, internal memos,
personal le