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