Adolfas Mekas

Adolfas Mekas (30 September 1925 – 31 May 2011) 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.

Adolfas Mekas
Born(1925-09-30)30 September 1925
Semeniškiai, Lithuania
Died31 May 2011(2011-05-31) (aged 85)
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Resting placeBard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Spouse
Pola Chapelle
(m. 1965)
ChildrenSean mekas
RelativesJonas Mekas (brother)
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