1925-09-30 Semeniškiai, Lithuania
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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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) | 2019-01-01 | |
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Sleepless Nights Stories | Self | 2011-12-15 |
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | Self | 2000-11-05 |
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Birth of a Nation | Self | 1997-08-06 |
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The Genius | Dr. Corbin | 1993-04-02 |
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life | Self | 1986-02-22 |
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Lost, Lost, Lost | Self | 1976-09-14 |
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Self | 1972-08-02 |
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Going Home | Himself | 1972-10-04 |
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Journey to Lithuania | Himself | 1971-01-01 |
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A Matter of Baobab | 1970-01-01 | |
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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel | 1969-01-01 | |
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Windflowers | Card Player | 1968-02-22 |
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Underground New York | Himself | 1968-01-01 |
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self | 1968-03-01 |
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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland | 1967-01-01 | |
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Guns of the Trees | Gregory | 1961-02-28 |
