Reminiscenses of a Journey to Lithuania
Director Jonas Mekas
Countries United States
Duration 82 min
Synopsis
A documentary that deals with issues such as memory, culture, culture and homeland. The director return to Lithuania, to reconect with his mother, his homeland, Semeniskiai, the house he used to live in and several family remebers. Divided into four parts covering sveral periods, the film also presents some images of his early years in America, and a parenthesis which opens on the suburb of Manburg, Elmshorn, where Mekas spent a year in a labour camp, and ends with a fire in a fruit market in Vienna, which he had visited with some friends.
A documentary that deals with issues such as memory, culture, culture and homeland. The director return to Lithuania, to reconect with his mother, his homeland, Semeniskiai, the house he used to live in and several family remebers. Divided into four parts covering sveral periods, the film also presents some images of his early years in America, and a parenthesis which opens on the suburb of Manburg, Elmshorn, where Mekas spent a year in a labour camp, and ends with a fire in a fruit market in Vienna, which he had visited with some friends.