1968Nominee
Best Performance
Underground New York
Adolfas Mekas
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
September 30, 1925
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1972Nominee
Best Performance
Going Home
2007Winner
Best Performance
365 Day Project
Career Highlights
1964Highlight
Best Performance
The Brig
1968Highlight
Best Performance
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
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Underground New York
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty