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