Adolfas Mekas
Montatore, Regista, Attore, Sceneggiatore
30 settembre 1925 — 31 maggio 2011 (85 anni)
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.
Filmografia
| 2013 | A Life in Dirty Movies · as SelfSu Plex |
| 2012 | Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man · as Self |
| 2011 | Sleepless Nights Stories · as Self |
| 2000 | |
| 1994 | Jonas in the Desert · as Self |
| 1986 | He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1983 | Birth of a Nation · as Self |
| 1976 | Lost, Lost, Lost · as Self |
| 1972 | Going Home · as Himself |
| 1972 | Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania · as Self |
| 1968 | Diaries Notes and Sketches · as Self |
| 1954 | Camera Three · as Self |
| 1972 | |
| 1966 | |
| 1964 | |
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| 1963 |
| 1972 | |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 |
| 2014 | For the Blinds · as Doctor |
| 1969 | |
| 1961 | Guns of the Trees · as Gregory |
| 1972 | Going Home · as Cinematographer |
| 1972 | Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania · as Cinematographer |