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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0985 |
| Birthday | 1925-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Semeniškiai, Lithuania |
| Also Known As | George Binkey, |
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
5.3/7
Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he encounte...
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Sleepless Nights Stories
1972
Going Home
5.833/6
A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly regarde...
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Going Home
1969
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
5.75/4
Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s Minister of F...
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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1967
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
0/0
Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas.
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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1968
Windflowers
10/1
Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge.
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Windflowers
2007
365 Day Project
10/1
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for...
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365 Day Project
2004
Certain Women
9/1
Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of wom...
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Certain Women
2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
7.6/81
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
8.4/10
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1972
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
7.102/44
Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai after decades in e...
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1961
Guns of the Trees
7.306/18
Barbara, a young woman consumed by despair, contemplates suicide, while a man she meets in a church and a married couple struggle to persuade her that...
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Guns of the Trees
1997
Birth of a Nation
7/4
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast...
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Birth of a Nation
1968
Underground New York
0/0
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American cul...
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Underground New York
1971
Journey to Lithuania
7/1
During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle, Adolf...
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Journey to Lithuania
1968
A Matter of Baobab
0/0
International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch,...
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A Matter of Baobab
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.2/30
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends,...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
7.13/23
Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle t...
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Lost, Lost, Lost
1993
The Genius
7/2
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who...
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The Genius
2019
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
0/0
A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
Heretic
0/0
Heretic is composed from the outtakes of Joe Gibbons's no-budget feature The Genius, set to John Zorn's Naked City "soundtrack" album Heretic, and rec...
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