
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.

365 Day Project
MOVIE • 2007

Windflowers
MOVIE • 1968

Guns of the Trees
MOVIE • 1961

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
MOVIE • 1968

Birth of a Nation
MOVIE • 1997

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
MOVIE • 2000

Lost, Lost, Lost
MOVIE • 1976

Going Home
MOVIE • 1972

The Genius
MOVIE • 1993

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
MOVIE • 1969

A Matter of Baobab
MOVIE • 1968

Underground New York
MOVIE • 1968

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
MOVIE • 1986

An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
MOVIE • 1967

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
MOVIE • 1972

Sleepless Nights Stories
MOVIE • 2011

Journey to Lithuania
MOVIE • 1971

Certain Women
MOVIE • 2004