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Adolfas Mekas
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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 …
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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.
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Adolfas Mekas's Filmography
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project
as Self
Certain Women
as Hilda's Papa
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
Birth of a Nation
as Self
The Genius
as Dr. Corbin
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
Going Home
as Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self
Up Your Legs Forever
as Self - Legs
Journey to Lithuania
as Himself
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
Windflowers
as Card Player
A Matter of Baobab
Underground New York
as Self
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
Guns of the Trees
as Gregory
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