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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) dir. Jonas Mekas

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas | 1972)

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972).

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania — Jonas Mekas, 1972

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Jonas Mekas - Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (dir. Adolfas Mekas, Jonas Mekas, 1972)

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania - Jonas Mekas (Trailer)

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- another day full of work and eating too much sweets - gonna watch Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania this weekend. probably - to be honest, if I had larger pairs of jeans and bigger sweatshirts - I wouldn’t give a fuck about my recent weight gain 

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, 1972. Jonas Mekas

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Somewhere in the first part of his Reminiscences, Jonas Mekas says something along the lines of how a displaced person is always already heading home the moment they have left for some place else. This incessant reference to a home that isn't theirs to inhabit anymore (and never will be again due to the rupture of time), suspends the very possibility to be home anywhere else. Or does it? Perhaps Mekas was never home again anywhere else but in cinema. Yet cinema, by its very nature, is an uninhabitable home; — ever disappearing amidst the play of light and dark. In theory, its capacity to reproduce and hold time is overstated. If we were ever able to grasp time entirely, time would no longer be time and life would grind to a halt. Isn't cinema, rather, a pathway unto absence? A trail of recollection which unfolds at its seams? In cinema I yearn for celluloid dreams that are never mine to have. — I am reminded of Serge Daney (as I always am) who couldn't imagine a love for cinema that doesn't rely on its call to go on without it. We never belong to cinema, except for when we have been left behind by the image, on our own, and what remains is the ever fading inscription it has left within our hearts. To continue on without it, is to go on to live by this inscription. Perhaps that is why Mekas' Reminiscences couldn't end in his homeland of Lithuania, but rather in Vienna amidst his friends. To finish in Lithuania would've been to remain in the past and hold onto what is already gone, and to be home nowhere ever again. For the Reminiscences to be just that, it was necessary to leave again. It is in cinema itself, then, that Mekas can come home ever again, in the disappearing image of a life that is no longer his to live, but nonetheless leads onto a trail that is never yet inhabited and goes beyond what has ever been.

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Jonas Mekas, Reminiscences of a journey to Lithuania (1972).

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania Jonas Mekas. 1972

Stairs Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria See in map

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Bonus: also in this location

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) dir. Jonas Mekas

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Films watched in 2019.

Top 20 Best Movies Watched for the First Time in 2019.

1. Tôkyô Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953) 2. Dans la ville blanche (Alain Tanner, 1983) 3. On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski, 1987) 4. Le diable probablement (Robert Bresson, 1977) 5. La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973) 6. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) 7. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948) 8. Absences répétées (Guy Gilles, 1972) 9. Le Pont des Arts (Eugène Green, 2004) 10. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) 11. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) 12. Sayat Nova (a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates) (Sergei Parajanov, 1969) 13. Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973) 14. Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) (a.k.a. Fire in Castilla (Tactilvision from the Moor of the Fright) (José Val del Omar, 1961) 15. Les parapluies de Cherbourg (a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (Jacques Demy, 1964) 16. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) 17. Fin août, début septembre (Olivier Assayas, 1998) 18. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972) 19. 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer 1987) 20. Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985)

(My list in Letterboxd -click here-)

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) dir. Jonas Mekas

Cinematography: Jonas Mekas