Pola Chapelle

  • Jonas Mekas – Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) (HD)

    1971-1980DocumentaryExperimentalJonas MekasUSA

    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.Read More »

  • Pola Chapelle – Journey to Lithuania (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseDocumentaryPola ChapelleUSA

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

    Quote:
    Knowing Pola Chapelle as a singer, she could not make anything that is not beautiful. – Anais NinRead More »

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