
Acting
Born September 30, 1925 · 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.
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019

Sleepless Nights Stories
2011

365 Day Project
2007

Certain Women
2004

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000

Birth of a Nation
1997

The Genius
1993

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986

Lost, Lost, Lost
1976

Going Home
1972

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972

Journey to Lithuania
1971

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968

Windflowers
1968

A Matter of Baobab
1968

Underground New York
1968

An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967

Guns of the Trees
1961