Acting
Adolfas Mekas
EN cinema · 32 credits
Born
30 September 1925
Died
31 May 2011 (aged 85)
Birthplace
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Also known as George Binkey
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.
Known for
Filmography
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself (archive footage)
365 Day Project
as Self
Certain Women
as Hilda's Papa
The Genius
as Dr. Corbin
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
Going Home
as Himself, Director, Editor
Journey to Lithuania
as Himself
Up Your Legs Forever
as Self - Legs
The Orchid
Production Coordinator
Compañeras and Compañeros
Director, Editor
Windflowers
as Card Player, Editor, Writer, Director, Music
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
Actor, Editor, Director
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
Screenplay, Director, Editor
Skyscraper
Director
Goldstein
Editor
The Brig
Editor
Hallelujah the Hills
Director, Writer, Editor
Guns of the Trees
as Gregory