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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Of the three films, Pola’s is the best. – Jonas Mekas

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Knowing Pola Chapelle as a singer, she could not make anything that is not beautiful. – Anais Nin

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You can’t go home again, I thought the words of Thomas Wolfe, but didn’t say them. The brothers were uneasy, but determined. We would make films of their return after so many years to the land of their birth. I would do sound with the little Uher, and in between, I would shoot my home movie on 8mm.

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You can’t go home again, I thought the words of Thomas Wolfe, but didn’t say them. The brothers were uneasy, but determined. We would make films of their return after so many years to the land of their birth. I would do sound with the little Uher, and in between, I would shoot my home movie on 8mm.

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One morning the five Mekas brothers stood in a line an allowed the family to measure their height. As Mama Mekas looked on, she spoke very solemnly. Adolofos translated for me. She said – My husband and I planted 5 birch trees. Two were straight and beautiful (Paul and Peter), one grew crooked. (Costas with a limp. a war souvenir, said – That’s me) and two fell down.
The two that fell were Jonas and and Adolofas. She lost them.

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All the time she that we were with her, she never showed any emotion. Only when she accompanied us to the airport in Vilnius, did I see tears in her eyes as Jonas and Adolofas embraced her. She loved them and she would lose them twice.
– Pola Chapelle

1.30GB | 1h 53m | 706×530 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/F2615C8B0768A87/Chapelle_Journey_to_Lithuania.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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