Adolfas Mekas
Acting
21
Acting Credits
8
Directed
Biography
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
Filmography
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
as Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project
2007
as Self
Certain Women
2004
as Hilda's Papa
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
The Genius
1993
as Dr. Corbin
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
Going Home
1972
as Himself
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972
as Self
Journey to Lithuania
1971
as Himself
Up Your Legs Forever
1971
as Self - Legs
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
Windflowers
1968
as Card Player
Underground New York
1968
as Self
A Matter of Baobab
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967
Guns of the Trees
1961
as Gregory