Acteur
Adolfas Mekas
Autres noms: George Binkey
Date de naissance
30 septembre 1925
Date de décès
31 mai 2011
(décédé à 85 ans)
Lieu de naissance
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
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Biographie
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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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
2000
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Windflowers
Card Player
1968
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Going Home
Himself
1972
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
1968
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365 Day Project
Self
2007
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Guns of the Trees
Gregory
1961
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Sleepless Nights Stories
Self
2011
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Up Your Legs Forever
Self - Legs
1971
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Journey to Lithuania
Himself
1971
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Self
1972
star7.0
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Birth of a Nation
Self
1997
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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
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Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
1976
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A Matter of Baobab
1968
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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself (archive footage)
2011
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Underground New York
Self
1968