Adolfas Mekas
Known For
Acting
Born
1925-09-30 in Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Died
2011-05-31
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.
Most Known For
Windflowers
as Card Player
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
Going Home
as Himself
Heretic
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
365 Day Project
as Self
Birth of a Nation
as Self
Journey to Lithuania
as Himself
Guns of the Trees
as Gregory
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
Certain Women
as Hilda's Papa
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
Underground New York
as Self
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
The Genius
as Dr. Corbin
A Matter of Baobab
