Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
About
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, mostly from 1950-1953. It shows me and my brother Adolfas, how we looked in those days; miscellaneous footage of immigrants in Brooklyn, picnicking, dancing, singing; the streets of Williamsburg. 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 homecoming. You don't really see how Lithuania is today: you see it only through the memories of a Displaced Person back home for the first time in twenty-five years. The third part begins with a parenthesis in Elmshorn, a suburb of Manburg, where we spent a year in a forced labor camp during the war. After the parenthesis closes, we are in Vienna where we see some of my best friends - Peter Kubelka, Hermann Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs. The film ends with the burning of the Vienna fruit market, August, 1971.
Films
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Guns of the Trees
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Film Magazine of the Arts
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Visions of Warhol
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Jonas Mekas Box Set
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Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
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The Brig
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Report From Millbrook
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Cassis
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Hare Krishna
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Notes On The Circus
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The Italian Notebook
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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
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Walden: Reel 1
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Walden
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Walden: Reel 4
Jonas Mekas16mm, color, sound, 45 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Walden: Reel 3
Jonas Mekas16mm, color, sound, 49 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Walden: Reel 2
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Lost, Lost, Lost: Reel 6
Jonas Mekas16mm, color and b/w, sound, 27 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Lost, Lost, Lost: Reel 5
Jonas Mekas16mm, color and b/w, sound, 29 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Lost, Lost, Lost: Reel 4
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Lost, Lost, Lost: Reel 2
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Lost, Lost, Lost
Jonas Mekas16mm, color and b/w, sound, 178 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Lost, Lost, Lost: Reel 1
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Lost, Lost, Lost: Reel 3
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In Between: 1964-68
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Notes For Jerome
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Paradise Not Yet Lost (a/k/a Oona's Third Year)
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Scenes of the Life Of Andy Warhol
Jonas Mekas16mm, color, sound, 36 min - Read MoreExperimental
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio
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Street Songs
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
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Mob of Angels: Baptism
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The Sixties Quartet
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Zefiro Torna or Scenes From the Life of George Maciunas
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Imperfect 3-Image Films
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Happy Birthday to John
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Birth of a Nation
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Notes on the Factory
Jonas Mekascolor, sound, 63 minRental formats: DVD NTSC, DVD PAL - Read MoreExperimental
This Side of Paradise
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A Letter to Penny Arcade
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Diary Entry: Father and Daughter
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Notes on Utopia
Jonas Mekascolor, sound, 55 minRental format: DVD PAL - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR
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Sleepless Nights Stories
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Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland
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Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
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