Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

  • February 2009
  • 4hrs

    46mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Jonas Mekas,

    A meditation on the time when the world watched as filmmaker Jonas Mekas' home country of Lithuania fought for independence. An immersion into the addictive grasp of the 24-hour news cycle, into a moment of major social upheaval, and into one very personal fixation of an obsessive chronicler. The film exists in a shortened, four-screen version as well as a one-screen, full-length document.