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Adolfas Mekas
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Life & Death

Died aged 85
Also known asGeorge BinkeyGenderMaleNationalityLithuaniaBorn30/09/1925Born inSemeniškiai, LithuaniaDied31/05/2011Died inUnited StatesWikidataQ364959TMDb#1088703

Adolfas Mekas was a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor and educator. With his brother Jonas Mekas, he founded the magazine Film Culture, as well as the Film-Makers' Cooperative and was associated with George Maciunas and the Fluxus art movement at its beginning. He made several short films, culminating in the feature Hallelujah the Hills in 1963, which was played at the Cannes Film Festival of that year and is now considered a classic of American film.

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Filmography22 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
20193 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)Movie94
2011Sleepless Nights StoriesMovieSelf86
2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmMovieHimself (archive footage)86
2007365 Day ProjectMovieSelf82
2004Certain WomenMovieHilda's Papa79
2000As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of BeautyMovieSelf75
1997Birth of a NationMovieSelf72
1993The GeniusMovieDr. Corbin68
1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His LifeMovieSelf (archive footage)61
1976Lost, Lost, LostMovieSelf51
1972Reminiscences of a Journey to LithuaniaMovieSelf47
1972Going HomeMovieHimself47
1971Up Your Legs ForeverMovieSelf - Legs46
1971Journey to LithuaniaMovieHimself46
1969Time & Fortune Vietnam NewsreelMovie44
1968WindflowersMovieCard Player43
1968Diaries, Notes, and SketchesMovieSelf43
1968Underground New YorkMovieSelf43
1968A Matter of BaobabMovie43
1967An Interview with the Ambassador from LaplandMovie42
1961Guns of the TreesMovieGregory36
0HereticMovie