Adolfas Mekas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 30, 1925
- Died
- May 31, 2011
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
- Heretic
Heretic TBA
Actor
- 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) 2019
Actor
Sleepless Nights Stories 2011
as Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2011
as Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project 2007
as Self
Certain Women 2004
as Hilda's Papa
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000
as Self
Birth of a Nation 1997
as Self
The Genius 1993
as Dr. Corbin
Visiting Jonas Mekas 1992
as Self (Archival)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 1986
as Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost 1976
as Self
Going Home 1972
as Himself, Director, Editor
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania 1972
as Self
The Orchid 1971
Production Coordinator
Up Your Legs Forever 1971
as Self - Legs
A Weekend with Strangers 1971
Editor
Journey to Lithuania 1971
as Himself
Compañeras and Compañeros 1970
Director, Editor
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel 1969
Actor
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches 1968
as Self
Windflowers 1968
as Card Player, Editor, Writer, Director, Music
A Matter of Baobab 1968
Actor
Underground New York 1968
as Self
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland 1967
Actor, Editor, Director
The Love Merchant 1966
Editor
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story 1965
Screenplay, Director, Editor
Skyscraper 1965
Director
Goldstein 1965
Editor
The Brig 1964
Editor
Hallelujah the Hills 1963
Director, Writer, Editor
Guns of the Trees 1961
as Gregory
- Antifilm #2
Antifilm #2 1951
Director
Credits from TMDB.