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Adolfas Mekas

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Lithuanian film director (1925-2011)

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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.

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Filmography 25

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000 · ★ 7.7
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania1972
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968
Lost, Lost, Lost1976
Guns of the Trees1961
Hallelujah the Hills1963
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986
Sleepless Nights Stories2011
Going Home1972
Birth of a Nation1997
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel1969
The Genius1993
365 Day Project2007
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story1965
Windflowers1968
Skyscraper1965
Journey to Lithuania1971
Certain Women2004
Compañeras and Compañeros1970
Underground New York1968
A Matter of Baobab1968
Antifilm #21951
Heretic
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland1967
3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)2019

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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.

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deceased
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Lived 1925 to 2011 · aged 85
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