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.

Known For

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

as Self

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

as Self

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self

Lost, Lost, Lost

as Self

Guns of the Trees

as Gregory

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

as Self (archive footage)

Sleepless Nights Stories

as Self

Going Home

as Himself

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

Birth of a Nation

as Self