Adolfas Mekas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 30, 1925
- Died
- May 31, 2011 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Semeniškiai, Lithuania
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
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Lost, Lost, Lost
Guns of the Trees
Hallelujah the Hills
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
The Brig
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
The Love Merchant
Sleepless Nights Stories
Going Home
Filmography
Heretic
Movie
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
Movie
Sleepless Nights Stories
Movie · as Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project
Movie · as Self
Certain Women
Movie · as Hilda's Papa
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Movie · as Self
Birth of a Nation
Movie · as Self
The Genius
Movie · as Dr. Corbin
Visiting Jonas Mekas
Movie · as Self (Archival)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost
Movie · as Self
Going Home
Movie · as Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Movie · as Self
Journey to Lithuania
Movie · as Himself
Up Your Legs Forever
Movie · as Self - Legs
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
Movie
Windflowers
Movie · as Card Player
Underground New York
Movie · as Self
A Matter of Baobab
Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie · as Self
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
Movie
Guns of the Trees
Movie · as Gregory