Adolfas Mekas
Acting
1925-09-30 · 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.
movie3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
as · 2019 · 0.0
movieSleepless Nights Stories
as Self · 2011 · 5.3
movie365 Day Project
as Self · 2007 · 10.0
movieCertain Women
as Hilda's Papa · 2004 · 9.0
movieAs I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self · 2000 · 7.7
movieBirth of a Nation
as Self · 1997 · 7.0
movieThe Genius
as Dr. Corbin · 1993 · 7.0
movieHe Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage) · 1986 · 8.4
movieLost, Lost, Lost
as Self · 1976 · 7.1
movieGoing Home
as Himself · 1972 · 5.8
movieReminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self · 1972 · 7.1
movieJourney to Lithuania
as Himself · 1971 · 7.0
movieTime & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
as · 1969 · 5.8
movieDiaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self · 1968 · 7.2
movieWindflowers
as Card Player · 1968 · 10.0
movieA Matter of Baobab
as · 1968 · 0.0
movieUnderground New York
as Self · 1968 · 0.0
movieAn Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
as · 1967 · 0.0
movieGuns of the Trees
as Gregory · 1961 · 7.3
movieHeretic
as · 0.0