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.
Filmography
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
as Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project
2007
as Self
Certain Women
2004
as Hilda's Papa
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
The Genius
1993
as Dr. Corbin
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
Going Home
1972
as Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
as Self
Up Your Legs Forever
1971
as Self - Legs
Journey to Lithuania
1971
as Himself
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
Windflowers
1968
as Card Player
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Underground New York
1968
as Self
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967
Guns of the Trees
1961
as Gregory
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Heretic
Unreleased