
Adolfas Mekas
Known for: Acting
Born: September 30, 1925
Died: May 31, 2011
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…
Known for

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969

An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967

Journey to Lithuania
1971

Going Home
1972

A Matter of Baobab
1968

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972

Guns of the Trees
1961

Underground New York
1968
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019

Lost, Lost, Lost
1976

The Genius
1993

Certain Women
2004
Heretic

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

Sleepless Nights Stories
2011

Windflowers
1968

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

Birth of a Nation
1997

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968

365 Day Project
2007