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Four young people are trying to understand why their friend, a young woman, committed a suicide. A film made up of disconnected scenes weaving between past and present. The title of the film comes from a poem by Stuart Perkoff which tells that some young people felt (around 1960) that everything is against them, so much that even the trees in the parks and streets seemed to them like guns pointing at their very existence.
– Jonas Mekas

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Guns of the Trees deals with the thoughts, feelings, and anguished strivings of my generation, faced with the moral perplexity of our times. Conceived as an episodic, horizontal film, there is no apparent direct story connection between one scene and the next. The scenes act like pieces of a larger, timed, emotional mosaic. Where the direct word, or the direct image, fails — when we come to more essential things — the indirectness of the poet will seize the essence and the truth.
– Jonas Mekas

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It is a bitter but lyric work. It is also revolutionary in form, being unlike, in its technique, anything you ever saw. It is a poster declaration, a manifesto. I regard Guns of The Trees as the most important film by far of the American “New Wave.”
– Herman G. Weinberg, New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative Catalogue

Guns of the Trees - 1961 - Jonas Mekas.mkv

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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 26mn
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https://nitro.download/view/91EB09DA44A3B70/Guns_of_the_Trees_-_1961_-_Jonas_Mekas.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English,French,German,Lithuanian

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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.

6.26GB | 1h 21m | 1420×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/AAC06A0ADD42117/Reminiscences.of.a.Journey.to.Lithuania.1972.1080p.BluRay.FLAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English,French,Korean,Lithuanian (Softcoded)

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Made by Adolfas Mekas and Pola Chapelle, the film is about childhood memories and life’s harships and the durability of families. In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence, Adolfas and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania. They had left Lithuania as young men, destined for a German labor camp. now they came home, Adolfas with his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle, and in the long northern summer days they sang and walked across golden fields and feasted at crowded tables with family and friends. There are flowers for the dead and for the living in this film; it is full of flowers and songs.

400MB | 57m 13s | 320×224 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/1AB4444CC536FC3/Going.Home.1972.Adolfas.Mekas.-.Eng.sub.French.-.La.Boulange.avi

Language:English
Subtitles:French hardsubs

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— Jonas Mekas wrote:
“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.

— Jonas Mekas wrote:
“The second part was shot in August 1971, in Lithuania. Almost all of the footage comes from Semeniškiai, 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.

— Jonas Mekas wrote:
“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.”

1.57GB | 1h 21m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/81965C654E3E6F1/Reminiscences_of_a_Journey_to_Lithuania_-_J._Mekas_(1972).mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/2CD919175B27075/Reminiscences_of_a_Journey_to_Lithuania_-_J._Mekas_(1972).part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/A4F414EEA593B9B/Reminiscences_of_a_Journey_to_Lithuania_-_J._Mekas_(1972).part2.rar

Language(s):English, a litlle Lithuanian
Subtitles:English, French, Lithuanian

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