Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 30, 1925
Died
May 31, 2011
Place of Birth
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Credits
32 titles
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
Filmography
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
Sleepless Nights Stories
Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project
Self
Certain Women
Hilda's Papa
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
Birth of a Nation
Self
The Genius
Dr. Corbin
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
Going Home
Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Self
The Orchid
Production Coordinator
Up Your Legs Forever
Self - Legs
A Weekend with Strangers
Editor
Journey to Lithuania
Himself
Compañeras and Compañeros
Director
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Windflowers
Card Player
A Matter of Baobab
Underground New York
Self
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
The Love Merchant
Editor
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Screenplay
Skyscraper
Director
Goldstein
Editor
The Brig
Editor
Hallelujah the Hills
Director
Guns of the Trees
Gregory
Antifilm #2
Director
Heretic