Remeniscences of a journey to Lithuania
Director Jonas Mekas
Countries
Duration 82 min
Synopsis
“The film consists of four parts. The first part is made up of footage I shot with my first Bolex during my first years in America. The second part was shot in August 1971, in Lithuania Almost all the footage comes from Semeniskiai, the village I was born in. You see the old house, my mother (born 1887), all the brothers, goofing, celebrating our homecoming; it was ourfirst time visiting our home in twenty-five years. The third partbegins with a parenthesis in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, where we spent a year in a forced labor camp during the war. The fourth part is in Vienna and ends with the burning of the Vienna fruit market, August 1971. The film deals with home, memory, and culture. - Jonas Mekas
“The film consists of four parts. The first part is made up of footage I shot with my first Bolex during my first years in America. The second part was shot in August 1971, in Lithuania Almost all the footage comes from Semeniskiai, the village I was born in. You see the old house, my mother (born 1887), all the brothers, goofing, celebrating our homecoming; it was ourfirst time visiting our home in twenty-five years. The third partbegins with a parenthesis in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, where we spent a year in a forced labor camp during the war. The fourth part is in Vienna and ends with the burning of the Vienna fruit market, August 1971. The film deals with home, memory, and culture. - Jonas Mekas