Adolfas Mekas
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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
Credits

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
as Self

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
as Self

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
as Self (archive footage)

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
as Himself (archive footage)

365 Day Project (2007)
as Self

Birth of a Nation (1997)
as Self

Up Your Legs Forever (1971)
as Self - Legs

Guns of the Trees (1961)
as Gregory
Heretic (—)
Actor

Going Home (1972)
as Himself

Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
as Self

Underground New York (1968)
as Self
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) (2019)
Actor

Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
as Self

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
as Self

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969)
Actor

Windflowers (1968)
as Card Player

A Matter of Baobab (1968)
Actor

An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967)
Actor

Journey to Lithuania (1971)
as Himself

The Genius (1993)
as Dr. Corbin

Certain Women (2004)
as Hilda's Papa





