Adolfas Mekas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 30, 1925
- Place of birth
- Semeniškiai, Lithuania
- Died
- May 31, 2011
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.
Movies with Adolfas Mekas
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 · ★ 7.8
- Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania 1972 · ★ 7.0
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches 1968 · ★ 7.3
- Lost, Lost, Lost 1976 · ★ 7.1
- Guns of the Trees 1961 · ★ 7.3
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2011 · ★ 6.8
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 1986 · ★ 8.4
- Sleepless Nights Stories 2011 · ★ 5.3
- Going Home 1972 · ★ 5.8
- Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel 1969 · ★ 5.8
- Birth of a Nation 1997 · ★ 7.0
- The Genius 1993 · ★ 7.0
- Up Your Legs Forever 1971 · ★ 8.0
- Windflowers 1968 · ★ 10.0
- 365 Day Project 2007 · ★ 10.0
- Certain Women 2004 · ★ 9.0
- Journey to Lithuania 1971 · ★ 7.0
- An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland 1967
- Underground New York 1968
- A Matter of Baobab 1968
- 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) 2019
Movies directed by Adolfas Mekas
- Hallelujah the Hills 1963 · ★ 6.2
- Going Home 1972 · ★ 5.8
- The Double-Barrelled Detective Story 1965 · ★ 9.0
- Windflowers 1968 · ★ 10.0
- Compañeras and Compañeros 1970 · ★ 9.0
- Skyscraper 1965 · ★ 9.0
- Antifilm #2 1951
- An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland 1967