Adolfas Mekas

Born: 1925-09-30

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.


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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

as Self
Released: 2000-11-05

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American...

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self
Released: 1968-03-01

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

as Self
Released: 1972-08-02

A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai,...

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Guns of the Trees

as Gregory
Released: 1961-02-28

A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a...

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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1986-02-22

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community...

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365 Day Project

as uncredited
Released: 2007-12-31

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in...

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Lost, Lost, Lost

as Self
Released: 1976-09-14

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between...

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Birth of a Nation

as Self
Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot...

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Underground New York

as Himself
Released: 1968-01-01

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a...

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Sleepless Nights Stories

as Self
Released: 2011-12-15

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage...

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Certain Women

as Hilda's Papa
Released: 2004-03-10

Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his...

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The Genius

as Dr. Corbin
Released: 1993-04-02

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower...

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Journey to Lithuania

as Himself
Released: 1971-01-01

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania,...

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Going Home

as Himself
Released: 1972-10-04

A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe....

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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

as uncredited
Released: 1969-01-01

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam...

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A Matter of Baobab

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-01

International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante,...

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