Adolfas Mekas
Acting
1925-09-30 · Semeniškiai, Lithuania
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
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019 · Movie
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011 · Movie
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Movie
365 Day Project
2007 · Movie
Certain Women
2004 · Movie
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Movie
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Movie
The Genius
1993 · Movie
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Movie
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 · Movie
Going Home
1972 · Movie
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972 · Movie
The Orchid
1971 · Movie
Up Your Legs Forever
1971 · Movie
A Weekend with Strangers
1971 · Movie
Journey to Lithuania
1971 · Movie
Compañeras and Compañeros
1970 · Movie
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969 · Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Movie
Windflowers
1968 · Movie
A Matter of Baobab
1968 · Movie
Underground New York
1968 · Movie
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967 · Movie
The Love Merchant
1966 · Movie
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
1965 · Movie
Skyscraper
1965 · Movie
Goldstein
1965 · Movie
The Brig
1964 · Movie
Hallelujah the Hills
1963 · Movie
Guns of the Trees
1961 · Movie
Antifilm #2
1951 · Movie
Heretic
Movie