Adolfas Mekas
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.
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as SelfA compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American...
Movie pageDiaries, Notes, and Sketches
as SelfAn epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
Movie pageReminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as SelfA 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai,...
Movie pageGuns of the Trees
as GregoryA depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a...
Movie pageHe Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community...
Movie page365 Day Project
as uncreditedThis exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in...
Movie pageLost, Lost, Lost
as SelfJonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between...
Movie pageBirth of a Nation
as SelfFilmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Movie pageAn Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
as uncreditedAdolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot...
Movie pageUnderground New York
as HimselfA rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a...
Movie pageSleepless Nights Stories
as SelfDirector Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage...
Movie pageCertain Women
as Hilda's PapaCaldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his...
Movie pageThe Genius
as Dr. CorbinA ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower...
Movie pageJourney to Lithuania
as HimselfDuring the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania,...
Movie pageGoing Home
as HimselfA home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe....
Movie pageTime & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
as uncreditedJonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam...
Movie pageA Matter of Baobab
as uncreditedInternational Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante,...
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