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.
Sleepless Nights Stories
(Self)
Going Home
(Himself)
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
Windflowers
(Card Player)
365 Day Project
Certain Women
(Hilda's Papa)
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
(Self)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
(Self (archive footage))
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
(Self)
Guns of the Trees
(Gregory)
Birth of a Nation
(Self)
Underground New York
(Himself)
Journey to Lithuania
(Himself)
A Matter of Baobab
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
(Self)
Lost, Lost, Lost
(Self)
The Genius
(Dr. Corbin)
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
Antifilm #2
(Director)
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
(Screenplay)
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
(Director)
Hallelujah the Hills
(Director)
Going Home
(Director)
Windflowers
(Editor)
Compañeras and Compañeros
(Director)
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
(Editor)
Compañeras and Compañeros
(Editor)
Skyscraper
(Director)
Windflowers
(Writer)
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
(Director)
Windflowers
(Director)
Windflowers
(Music)
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
(Editor)
The Love Merchant
(Editor)
Hallelujah the Hills
(Writer)
Hallelujah the Hills
(Editor)
Goldstein
(Editor)
A Weekend with Strangers
(Editor)
The Brig
(Editor)
Going Home
(Editor)
The Orchid
(Production Coordinator)