
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

Birth of a Nation (1997)
as Self

365 Day Project (2007)
as Self

Going Home (1972)
as Himself

Windflowers (1968)
as Card Player

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
as Self

Guns of the Trees (1961)
as Gregory

Underground New York (1968)
as Self

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
as Self

Journey to Lithuania (1971)
as Himself

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

The Genius (1993)
as Dr. Corbin

Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
as Self

Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
as Self

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969)
Actor
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) (2019)
Actor

A Matter of Baobab (1968)
Actor
Heretic (—)
Actor

An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967)
Actor

Certain Women (2004)
as Hilda's Papa





