Adolfas Mekas
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.
Acting
Movie
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
2000
Movie
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self
1972
Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1968
Movie
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
1976
Movie
Guns of the Trees
as Gregory
1961
Movie
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
1986
Movie
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
2011
Movie
Going Home
as Himself
1972
Movie
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
Movie
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1997
Movie
The Genius
as Dr. Corbin
1993
Movie
Windflowers
as Card Player
1968
Movie
365 Day Project
as Self
2007
Movie
Certain Women
as Hilda's Papa
2004
Movie
Journey to Lithuania
as Himself
1971
Movie
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967
Movie
Underground New York
as Self
1968
Movie
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Movie
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Movie
Heretic
Crew
Movie
Hallelujah the Hills
Director
1963
Movie
The Brig
Editor
1964
Movie
The Love Merchant
Editor
1966
Movie
Going Home
Director
1972
Movie
Goldstein
Editor
1965
Movie
A Weekend with Strangers
Editor
1971
Movie
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Screenplay
1965
Movie
Windflowers
Director
1968
Movie
Compañeras and Compañeros
Director
1970
Movie
Skyscraper
Director
1965
Movie
Antifilm #2
Director
1951
Movie
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
Director
1967