Movies: Adolfas Mekas

  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 1968
    A Matter of Baobab

    A Matter of Baobab (1968)

    A Matter of Baobab

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    International Cast of Actors: Jonas Mekas, from Lithuania, poet and film-maker; Louis Brigante, from Madagascar, poet and publisher; Storm De Hirsch, from Holland, poetess, seer and film-maker; Pola Chapelle, from Tierra del Fuego, singer and motel o...

    A Matter of Baobab
  • 1971
    Journey to Lithuania

    Journey to Lithuania (1971)

    Journey to Lithuania

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    During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle, Adolfas’ wife, made this Journey to Lithuania, which both Jonas and Adolfas said was the best of these th...

    Journey to Lithuania
  • 1968
    Underground New York

    Underground New York (1968)

    Underground New York

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    A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the six...

    Underground New York
  • 1965
    Skyscraper

    Skyscraper (1965)

    Skyscraper

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    An Adolfas Mekas directed short parodying Italian art films of the time. It was created for use in a scene of the Broadway musical, "Skyscraper," starring Julie Harris and Peter Marshall, with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyri...

    Skyscraper
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a ...

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1969
    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969)

    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

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    Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ brings an outsider’s perspective to bear on the US war, and discusses with ironic pe...

    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
  • 1967
    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967)

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

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    Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas....

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland
  • 1951
    Antifilm #2

    Antifilm #2 (1951)

    Antifilm #2

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    Early Short by Adolfas Mekas, apparently credited as "George Binkey."...

    Antifilm #2
  • 1970
    Compañeras and Compañeros

    Compañeras and Compañeros (1970)

    Compañeras and Compañeros

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    A feature documentary about Cuba’s youth: the student, the worker, the peasant, the teacher, the soldier. These young compañeras and compañeros illustrate what the Cuban Revolution is really all about as they discuss their thoughts on the revolution,...

    Compañeras and Compañeros