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- Season: Jonas Mekas Retrospective
- Director: Jonas Mekas
- Country: USA
- Year: 1971-1972
- Print source: Light Cone
The film consists of four 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. 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. The third part is in Elmshorn,
near Hamburg, where I spent eight months in a
forced labour camp. The fourth part is in Vienna
and ends with the burning of the Vienna fruit
market, August, 1971. The film deals with home,
memory, and culture.
Jonas Mekas
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