Adolfas Mekas (Actor)

Reviews of Adolfas Mekas Movies

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Movies starring Adolfas Mekas have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film - released in 2011 - is Adolfas Mekas's highest rated movie, with a score of 65% based on 6 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Adolfas Mekas is Sleepless Nights Stories - released in 2011 - with a score of 58% based on 6 reviews.

Actor 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.

Adolfas Mekas has acted in films with Yoko Ono, Sebastian Mekas, Ken Jacobs and Benn Northover.

Adolfas Mekas has worked with these film directors: Jonas Mekas and Pip Chodorov.