Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1925-09-30
Day of Death
2011-05-31
Place of Birth
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Adolfas Mekas
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.
Filmography (19)
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
365 Day Project
2007
Certain Women
2004
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Birth of a Nation
1997
The Genius
1993
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
Going Home
1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
Journey to Lithuania
1971
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
