Adolfas Mekas

from Semeniškiai, Lithuania

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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.

Timeline

2011Aged 86

  • Poster for Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Himself (archive footage)

  • Poster for Sleepless Nights Stories

    Self

2007Aged 82

  • Poster for 365 Day Project

    Self

2004Aged 79

  • Poster for Certain Women

    Hilda's Papa

2000Aged 75

  • Poster for As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    Self

1997Aged 72

  • Poster for Birth of a Nation

    Self

1993Aged 68

  • Poster for The Genius

    Dr. Corbin

1986Aged 61

  • Poster for He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    Self (archive footage)

1976Aged 51

  • Poster for Lost, Lost, Lost

    Self

1972Aged 47

  • Poster for Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    Self

  • Poster for Going Home

    Himself

1971Aged 46

  • Poster for Journey to Lithuania

    Himself

  • Poster for Up Your Legs Forever

    Self - Legs

  • Poster for A Weekend with Strangers

    Editor

  • Poster for The Orchid

    Production Coordinator

1970Aged 45

  • Poster for Compañeras and Compañeros

    Editor

1969Aged 44

  • Poster for Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

    (Unknown)

1968Aged 43

  • Poster for Underground New York

    Self

  • Poster for A Matter of Baobab

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Windflowers

    Card Player

  • Poster for Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Self

1967Aged 42

  • Poster for An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    Editor

1966Aged 41

  • Poster for The Love Merchant

    Editor

1965Aged 40

  • Poster for Goldstein

    Editor

  • Poster for Skyscraper

    Director

  • Poster for The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    Editor

1964Aged 39

  • Poster for The Brig

    Editor

1963Aged 38

  • Poster for Hallelujah the Hills

    Editor

1961Aged 36

  • Poster for Guns of the Trees

    Gregory

1951Aged 26

Year unknown