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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) — Self
2. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) — Self
3. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
4. Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) — Self
5. Guns of the Trees (1961) — Gregory
6. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Himself (archive footage)
7. He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) — Self (archive footage)
8. Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) — Self
9. Going Home (1972) — Himself
10. Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969)
11. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
12. The Genius (1993) — Dr. Corbin
13. Up Your Legs Forever (1971) — Self - Legs
14. Windflowers (1968) — Card Player
15. 365 Day Project (2007) — Self
16. Certain Women (2004) — Hilda's Papa
17. Journey to Lithuania (1971) — Himself
18. An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967)
19. Underground New York (1968) — Self
20. A Matter of Baobab (1968)
21. 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) (2019)
22. Heretic

Directed

1. Hallelujah the Hills (1963) — Director
2. Going Home (1972) — Director
3. The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965) — Director
4. Windflowers (1968) — Director
5. Compañeras and Compañeros (1970) — Director
6. Skyscraper (1965) — Director
7. Antifilm #2 (1951) — Director
8. An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967) — Director