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Age
20
Movies
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Rating
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.
85
Died at
20
Movies
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Avg Rating
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.
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 30, 1925
Died
May 31, 2011
Birthplace
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Also Known As
Windflowers
1968
Guns of the Trees
1961
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Journey to Lithuania
1971
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
Going Home
1972
Certain Women
2004
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
365 Day Project
2007
Underground New York
1968
The Genius
1993
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
Birth of a Nation
1997
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
Heretic
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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967