Adolfas Mekas
Adolfas Mekas (born on September 30th 1924 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania and died on May 31st 2011 in Poughkeepsie, New York) was a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor, educator and mentor. Adolfas Mekas collaborated with his brother Jonas Mekas to establish the seminal magazine Film Culture, and the Film-Maker’s Cooperative. He was associated with George Maciunas as well as the Fluxus art movement. His short films incorporate a comic and anarchic spirit, highlighted in his feature ‘Hallelujah the Hills’ (1963), which was featured at the Cannes Film Festival and is now classified as an American classic. Adolfas Mekas played a key role in the experimental film society, the ‘New American Cinema’ in the 1960s.
Known For
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- 2021 · As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty as Self
- 2019 · 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) as
- 2013 · Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- 2011 · Sleepless Nights Stories as Self
- 2007 · 365 Day Project as
- 2004 · Certain Women as Hilda's Papa
- 1997 · Birth of a Nation as Self
- 1996 · Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania as Self
- 1993 · The Genius as Dr. Corbin
- 1986 · He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 · Lost, Lost, Lost as Self
- 1972 · Going Home as Himself
- 1971 · Journey to Lithuania as Himself
- 1970 · A Matter of Baobab as
- 1969 · Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel as
- 1968 · Windflowers as Card Player
- 1968 · Underground New York as Himself
- 1967 · An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland as
- 1961 · Guns of the Trees as Gregory