Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Jonas Mekas Retrospective
February 17 - 23, 2022
Arguably the greatest achievement within his exploration of the film-diary form, Mekas’s fourth feature documents his return to the Lithuanian village of his birth for the first time since he and his brother Adolfas escaped from German labor camps and emigrated to the United States in the late 1940s.
Documenting Mekas’s return to the Lithuanian village of his birth, Semeniškiai, for the first time since he and his brother Adolfas escaped from German labor camps and emigrated to the United States in the late 1940s, Reminiscences is arguably the greatest achievement within Mekas’s exploration of the film-diary form. We begin in Williamsburg with footage shot by Mekas with his first Bolex of his and Adolfas’s first years in exile, before skipping ahead to the brothers’ return to Lithuania in 1971, their reunions with family members, their experience of their home country as displaced people, and finally, their visit to the labor camp near Hamburg where they were imprisoned during World War II. An unceasingly poetic work on the experience of exile, Reminiscences remains a towering feat of personal filmmaking. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation.
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