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
Actor
as Self
as Hilda's Papa
as Self
as Dr. Corbin
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Himself
as Himself
as Self
as Card Player
as Himself
as Gregory
Editor
as Editor
as Editor
as Editor
as Editor
as Editor
as Editor
as Editor
as Editor
as Editor
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Writer
as Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
Sound
as Music