Adolfas Mekas

Adolfas Mekas

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.

  • Title: Adolfas Mekas
  • Popularity: 0.854
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1925-09-30
  • Place of Birth: Semeniškiai, Lithuania
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  • Also Known As: George Binkey
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Adolfas Mekas Movies

  • 2011
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    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

    5.7 2011 HD

    Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...

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  • 1972
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    Going Home

    Going Home

    5.4 1972 HD

    A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly...

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  • 1969
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    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

    5.3 1969 HD

    Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s...

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  • 1967
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    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    1 1967 HD

    Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas.

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  • 1968
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    Windflowers

    Windflowers

    1 1968 HD

    Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge.

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  • 2007
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    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    1 2007 HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

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  • 2004
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    Certain Women

    Certain Women

    1 2004 HD

    Caldwell's pulp storytelling, proto-feminist stance and unabashed social dramatization of his characters are a distinct vision of the condition of...

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

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

    7.8 2000 HD

    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

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

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    8 1986 HD

    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

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  • 1961
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    Guns of the Trees

    Guns of the Trees

    7.4 1961 HD

    A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth...

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  • 1972
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    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    6.8 1972 HD

    A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 1968
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    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    1 1968 HD

    A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...

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  • 1971
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    Journey to Lithuania

    Journey to Lithuania

    1 1971 HD

    During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle,...

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  • 1970
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    A Matter of Baobab

    A Matter of Baobab

    1 1970 HD

    International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch,...

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  • 1968
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.3 1968 HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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  • 1976
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    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    6.75 1976 HD

    Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

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  • 1993
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    The Genius

    The Genius

    5 1993 HD

    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

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  • 2019
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    3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)

    3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)

    1 2019 HD

    A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

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  • 1951
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    Antifilm #2

    Antifilm #2

    1 1951 HD

    Early Short by Adolfas Mekas, apparently credited as "George Binkey."

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  • 1965
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    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    1 1965 HD

    Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation...

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  • 1965
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    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    1 1965 HD

    Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation...

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  • 1963
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    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

    6.2 1963 HD

    Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

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  • 1972
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    Going Home

    Going Home

    5.4 1972 HD

    A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly...

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  • 1967
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    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    1 1967 HD

    Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas.

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  • 1967
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    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    1 1967 HD

    Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas.

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  • 1968
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    Windflowers

    Windflowers

    1 1968 HD

    Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge.

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  • 1968
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    Windflowers

    Windflowers

    1 1968 HD

    Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge.

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  • 1968
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    Windflowers

    Windflowers

    1 1968 HD

    Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge.

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  • 1968
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    Windflowers

    Windflowers

    1 1968 HD

    Arthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge.

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  • 1970
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    Compañeras and Compañeros

    Compañeras and Compañeros

    1 1970 HD

    A feature documentary about Cuba’s youth: the student, the worker, the peasant, the teacher, the soldier. These young compañeras and...

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  • 1970
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    Compañeras and Compañeros

    Compañeras and Compañeros

    1 1970 HD

    A feature documentary about Cuba’s youth: the student, the worker, the peasant, the teacher, the soldier. These young compañeras and...

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  • 1965
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    Skyscraper

    Skyscraper

    1 1965 HD

    An Adolfas Mekas directed short parodying Italian art films of the time. It was created for use in a scene of the Broadway musical, "Skyscraper,"...

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  • 1963
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    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

    6.2 1963 HD

    Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

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  • 1963
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    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

    6.2 1963 HD

    Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic...

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  • 1965
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    Goldstein

    Goldstein

    5 1965 HD

    GOLDSTEIN, the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman, is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s. A...

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  • 1964
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    The Brig

    The Brig

    6.6 1964 HD

    An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work...

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  • 1965
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    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    1 1965 HD

    Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation...

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  • 1966
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    The Love Merchant

    The Love Merchant

    4.9 1966 HD

    Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his...

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  • 1971
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    A Weekend with Strangers

    A Weekend with Strangers

    5 1971 HD

    An attractive youth counselor must resort to murder in order to be free from her sordid past.

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  • 1972
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    Going Home

    Going Home

    5.4 1972 HD

    A home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly...

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