"Chronicling a Crisis," by Amos Kollek For most people, a midlife crisis is solved by changing careers, partners or therapists. But for the filmmaker Amos Kollek, the depression and artistic stasis that followed the failure of his 2003 film, "Happy End" (also called "Nowhere to Go but Up"), was best countered by once again picking up a camera. This time, however, he turned it on himself. The result of seven years of therapeutic self-absorption, "Chronicling a Crisis" documents Mr. Kollek's journey to regain emotional stability and reconnect with his craft. Hopping between the cities he knows best, New York and Jerusalem, he ponders his undefined spirituality ("never been religious; won't start now") and unresolved issues with his nonagenarian father, Teddy Kollek, whose celebrated 28-year tenure as the mayor of Jerusalem left an indelible imprint on his son's psyche. Alternately tedious and illuminating, this deeply honest and scattered movie revels in its lack of purpose. Traipsing glumly around the East Village, Mr. Kollek befriends Robin Remias, a bright heroin addict who becomes his broken-down muse. As Mr. Kollek returns again and again to record her perilous progress, the parallels between their relationship and his struggle to confront his father's declining health (he died in 2007) take center stage. When the distractions finally clear, we are left with a naked portrait of successful self-analysis, of a man reaching backward for the strength to move forward.