Reminiscences of a Journey in Lithuania
« The film consists of three 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 of 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 home-coming; you see some of the places we used to know; you see some of the field work, and other insignificant details and memories. You don’t really see Lithuania as it is today: you see it only through the memories of a Displaced person back home for the first time in 25 years. The third part begins with a parenthesis in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, where we spent a year in a forced labor camp during the war’ ( Jonas Mekas)
Jonas Mekas has always filmed his everyday environment: we associate his works with New York, his beloved adopted city, with the apartments he lived in or those of his friends. But he spent much of his time in his 4-km long garden, just near his residence: Central Park.
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