# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolfas-mekas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:53:22.292Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adolfas-mekas"
name: "Adolfas Mekas"
slug: "adolfas-mekas"
description: "Adolfas Mekas was a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor and educator. With his brother Jonas Mekas, he founded the magazine Film Culture, as well as the Film-Makers' Cooperative and was associated with George Maciunas and the Fluxus art movement at its beginning. He made several short films, culminating in the feature Hallelujah the Hills in 1963, which was played at the Cannes Film Festival of that year and is now considered a classic of American film."
tagline: "Lithuanian film director (1925–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AdolfasMekasTula.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1925-09-30"
deathDate: "2011-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.274334666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083017/"
    handle:    "nm0083017"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ایڈولفاس میکاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ادولفاس ميكاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfas_Mekas"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364959"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1088703"
    title: "Adolfas Mekas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump