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Adolfas Mekas

Adolfas Mekas

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.

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Movies Starring Adolfas Mekas (19)

3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert) (2019)

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel. ...

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Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)

Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, galleries, bars, and clubs. Along the way he encounters friends and fellow artists—including Ken and Flo Jacobs and Yoko Ono—capturing an intimate mosaic o ...

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365 Day Project (2007)

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas' 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were ...

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Certain Women (2004)

Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of women -- specifically working class women. His broadly drawn themes of small town hypocrisy and restrictive m ...

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

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order. ...

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Birth of a Nation (1997)

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own "nation of cinema," a vital ...

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The Genius (1993)

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts. Gibbons plays a mad scientist who's developed a technique for transferr ...

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

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas. ...

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Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas's autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle to build a new life in New York and his gradual discovery of a vibrant artistic community. ...

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Going Home (1972)

A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly regarded "Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania" by Jonas Mekas, brother to Adolfas. ...

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)

Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai after decades in exile. Blending personal memory with documentary observation, the film becomes both a portrait of homeco ...

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Journey to Lithuania (1971)

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle, Adolfas' wife, made this Journey to Lithuania, which both Jonas and Adolfas said was the best of these three fi ...

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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969)

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with 'Lapland's Minister of Foreign Affairs' brings an outsider's perspective to bear on the US war, and discusses with ironic perplexi ...

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas's first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it ...

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Windflowers (1968)

Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge. ...

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A Matter of Baobab (1968)

International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch, from Holland, poetess, seer and film-maker; Pola Chapelle, from Tierra del Fuego, singer and motel operato ...

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Underground New York (1968)

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York "underground" in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties r ...

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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967)

Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas. ...

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Guns of the Trees (1961)

Barbara, a young woman consumed by despair, contemplates suicide, while a man she meets in a church and a married couple struggle to persuade her that life is still worth living. Mekas's film weaves this intimate drama into a larger reflection on alienatio ...

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Movies Made By Adolfas Mekas (13)

Going Home (1972)

A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly regarded "Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania" by Jonas Mekas, brother to Adolfas. ...

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The Orchid (1971)

An experimental film directed by author Samuel R. ...

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A Weekend with Strangers (1971)

An attractive youth counselor must resort to murder in order to be free from her sordid past. ...

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Compañeras and Compañeros (1970)

A feature documentary about Cuba's youth: the student, the worker, the peasant, the teacher, the soldier. These young compañeras and compañeros illustrate what the Cuban Revolution is really all about as they discuss their thoughts on the revolution, the ...

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Windflowers (1968)

Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge. ...

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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967)

Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas. ...

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The Love Merchant (1966)

Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his next conquest, but the married and straight-laced Peggy turns down his proposal. However, after her husband's ...

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The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965)

Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation owner in order to humiliate him. He mistreats his wife, but she stoically refuses to complain to her fathe ...

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Skyscraper (1965)

An Adolfas Mekas directed short parodying Italian art films of the time. It was created for use in a scene of the Broadway musical, "Skyscraper," starring Julie Harris and Peter Marshall, with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by ...

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Goldstein (1965)

A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters. ...

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The Brig (1964)

Jonas Mekas's film captures The Living Theatre's stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps jail in Japan in 1957. Over the course of a single day, prisoners endure relentless drills, abuse, and dehumanization, ...

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Hallelujah the Hills (1963)

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashbacks and homages. ...

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Antifilm #2 (1951)

Early Short by Adolfas Mekas, apparently credited as "George Binkey. ...

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