Adolfas Mekas

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Adolfas Mekas

Adolfas mekas (* the 30th September 1925 in Semeniškiai , Biržai , Lithuania , † 31 May 2011 in Poughkeepsie , New York ) was a Lithuanian, mostly in the United States living film director and university teacher. His brother was the avant-garde filmmaker and artist Jonas Mekas .

Life

Adolfas mekas came in 1949 in the United States after it during the Second World War in a concentration camp the Nazis was interned and the time after the war in a camp for displaced persons spent in Germany, where he had the opportunity to study theater and Literature. From 1951 to 1953 he worked as a photographer in the US Army Signal Corps ; he then founded the film magazine Film Culture and a filmmaker cooperative with his older brother Jonas in 1954 , which served as an independent distribution company. At the beginning of the 1960s Mekas was involved in the neo-Dadaist Fluxus movement and took part in the first Fluxus performances in 1961. He then made his first short films and finally the comedy Hallelujah the Hills , which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963 . Going Home was made in 1971 and directed by his brother Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania , which showed her first trip to Lithuania since the end of the World War. He taught at Bard College in New York for 33 years ; In 1971 he founded the film program in Bard, which he directed until 1994. After his retirement he taught until 2004 and lived in Rhinebeck. In his last years he worked with David Avallone on a film about Giordano Bruno ( Burn Bruno Burn ) and participated in Jonas Mekas' film diary Sleepless Nights Stories .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1963: Hallelujah the Hills
  • 1964: The Brig (with Jonas Mekas)
  • 1965: Skyscraper
  • 1965: The Double-Barreled Detective Story
  • 1968: Windflowers
  • 1970: Campeneras and Campaneros
  • 1971: Going Home

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Adolfas Mekas, filmmaker and professor, dies at 85. The Associated Press, June 1, 2011, accessed June 2, 2011 .
  2. Ed Halter: Ga-Ga-Ga-Goils! A Counterculture Cornerstone Turns 40 . In: villagevoice.com
  3. ^ Gary Morris: American Independent Cinema of the 60's In: Bright Lights Film Journal 2000
  4. Adolfas Mekas, filmmaker and professor, dies at 85. The Associated Press, June 1, 2011, accessed June 2, 2011 .
  5. Filmmaker and Professor Adolfas Mekas Dies at 85
  6. Eric Kohn: Obituary at Indie Wire. May 31, 2011, accessed April 29, 2015 .