Adolfas Mekas

Known for ActingBorn 1925-09-30Died 2011-05-31Semeniškiai, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

365 Day Project

Windflowers

Certain Women

Compañeras and Compañeros

The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

Skyscraper

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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

Birth of a Nation

The Genius

Guns of the Trees

Lost, Lost, Lost

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Journey to Lithuania

The Brig

Hallelujah the Hills

A Weekend with Strangers

Going Home

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

Sleepless Nights Stories

Goldstein

The Love Merchant

3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)

The Orchid

Underground New York

A Matter of Baobab

An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

Antifilm #2

Heretic