Adolfas Mekas
Acting
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.
Filmography 27
Movies (27)
- 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)2019
Sleepless Nights Stories2011Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project2007Self
Certain Women2004Hilda's Papa
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000Self
Birth of a Nation1997Self
The Genius1993Dr. Corbin
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost1976Self
Going Home1972Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania1972Self
Up Your Legs Forever1971Self - Legs
Journey to Lithuania1971Himself
Compañeras and Compañeros1970Directing
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel1969
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968Self
Windflowers1968Card Player
A Matter of Baobab1968
Underground New York1968Self
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland1967
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story1965Directing
Skyscraper1965Directing
Hallelujah the Hills1963Directing
Guns of the Trees1961Gregory- Antifilm #21951Directing
- Heretic