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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 30, 1925
Died
May 31, 2011
Place of Birth
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Also Known As
- George Binkey
Adolfas Mekas
0.1 Popularity
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
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
7.5
Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
2013
5.7
Self
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
10.0
365 Day Project
2007
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Hilda's Papa
Certain Women
2004
7.6
Self
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
6.3
Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
6.9
Self
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1996
5.0
Dr. Corbin
The Genius
1993
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Self (archive footage)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Credits
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3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
2019
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
2013
7.5
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
2011
5.7
365 Day Project
2007
10.0
Certain Women
as Hilda's Papa
2004
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
2000
7.6
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1997
6.3
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self
1996
6.9
The Genius
as Dr. Corbin
1993
5.0
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
1986
8.2
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
1976
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Going Home
as Himself
1972
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Journey to Lithuania
as Himself
1971
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A Matter of Baobab
1970
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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
1969
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Windflowers
as Card Player
1968
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Underground New York
as Self
1968
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An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
1967
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Guns of the Trees
as Gregory
1961
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