Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)

Directed by

Jonas Mekas

Genre

documentary film, diary film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jonas Mekas returns to his birth village in Lithuania after 27 years away. The film uses his own home movies and voiceover to show the trip and his feelings about going back.

personalreflectiveintimatenostalgicquietmeditativecontemplativeobservational

What happens

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania is a 1972 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth. It was Mekas' second diary film, which narrates through highly personal footage and voiceover the Mekas brothers’ visit to their native Lithuanian village of Semeniškiai, Panevėžys in 1971 after a 27-year absence. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania is now part of Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Repertory collection. In 2006, the film was selected to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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