Adolfas Mekas
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.
Known For
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
Sleepless Nights Stories
Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Self
365 Day Project
Self
Birth of a Nation
Self
Guns of the Trees
Gregory
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
Going Home
Himself
Up Your Legs Forever
Self - Legs
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself (archive footage)