Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

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1972•81 min•Documentary

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Pola Chapelle

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Peter Kubelka

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Adolfas Mekas

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Jonas Mekas

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Hollis Melton

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Annette Michelson

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Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai after decades in exile. Blending personal memory with documentary observation, the film becomes both a portrait of homecoming and a meditation on displacement, family, and the passage of time.

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