Adolfas Mekas
Birthday
1925/09/30
Day of death
2011/05/31 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Also know as
George Binkey
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...Read more
Acting
(2011) Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
(1972) Going Home
as Himself
(1969) Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
as ---
(1967) An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
as ---
(1968) Windflowers
as Card Player
(2007) 365 Day Project
as ---
(2004) Certain Women
as Hilda's Papa
(2000) As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
(1986) He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1961) Guns of the Trees
as Gregory
(1996) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
as Self
(1997) Birth of a Nation
as Self
(1968) Underground New York
as Himself
(1971) Journey to Lithuania
as Himself
(1970) A Matter of Baobab
as ---
(2013) Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
(1976) Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
(1993) The Genius
as Dr. Corbin
(2019) 3 Friends Singing (...in the Desert)
as ---