Adolfas Mekas
Biography
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
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Birth of a Nation
365 Day Project
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Lost, Lost, Lost
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Guns of the Trees
Sleepless Nights Stories
All Movies (20)
- 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)2019
- Sleepless Nights Stories2011 · as Self
- 365 Day Project2007 · as Self
- Certain Women2004 · as Hilda's Papa
- As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000 · as Self
- Birth of a Nation1997 · as Self
- The Genius1993 · as Dr. Corbin
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986 · as Self (archive footage)
- Lost, Lost, Lost1976 · as Self
- Going Home1972 · as Himself
- Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania1972 · as Self
- Journey to Lithuania1971 · as Himself
- Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel1969
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968 · as Self
- Windflowers1968 · as Card Player
- A Matter of Baobab1968
- Underground New York1968 · as Self
- An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland1967
- Guns of the Trees1961 · as Gregory
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