Adolfas Mekas
Actor
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.
Filmography
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self 2000
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self 1972
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self 1968
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self 1976
Guns of the Trees
as Gregory 1961
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage) 1986
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self 2011
Going Home
as Himself 1972
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
Birth of a Nation
as Self 1997
365 Day Project
as Self 2007
Journey to Lithuania
as Himself 1971
The Genius
as Dr. Corbin 1993
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967
Windflowers
as Card Player 1968
Certain Women
as Hilda's Papa 2004
Underground New York
as Self 1968