Going Home

Directed by Adolfas Mekas.
US, 1972, 16mm, color, 61 min.
Print source: Film-maker's Cooperative

Created at the same time as Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania—and frequently overshadowed by his brother’s film—Going Home was made by both Adolfas Mekas and his wife Pola Chapelle about the Mekas brothers’ return to Lithuania after a twenty-seven-year absence. A moving portrait emerges with feasts, family, friends and “flowers for the dead and for the living in this film; it is full of flowers and songs." 

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