Adolfas Mekas

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1925-09-30

Deathday 2011-05-31 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Semeniškiai, Lithuania

Also Known As George Binkey

Adolfas Mekas

Biography

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

Editor

1972
Going Home

as Editor

1968
Windflowers

as Editor

1966
1965
Goldstein

as Editor

1964
The Brig

as Editor

1963

Director

1972
Going Home

as Director

1968
Windflowers

as Director

1965
Skyscraper

as Director

1963
1951
Antifilm #2

as Director

Writer

1968
Windflowers

as Writer

1963

Sound

1968
Windflowers

as Music

Producer

1971
The Orchid

as Production Coordinator