Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses

Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses (2013)

August 1st, 20130h 4min

Animation
70%

Overview

A short animated telling of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a place of pilgrimage consisting of a formidable accumulation of crosses that was often razed during the Soviet period. Coming to replant a cross was then an act of resistance.


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