Movies: Adolfas Mekas

  • 2021
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2021)

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order....

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 2013
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (2013)

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 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
  • 1966
    The Love Merchant

    The Love Merchant (1966)

    The Love Merchant

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    Biker Click procures lovely willing young women for decadent millionaire playboy Kendall Harvey III. Kendall sets his sights on Peggy Johns as his next conquest, but the married and straight-laced Peggy turns down his proposal. However, after her hus...

    The Love Merchant
  • 1996
    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1996)

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

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    A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth....

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
  • 1964
    The Brig

    The Brig (1964)

    The Brig

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    An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shockin...

    The Brig
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project (2007)

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...

    365 Day Project
  • 1963
    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills (1963)

    Hallelujah the Hills

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    Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashbacks and homages....

    Hallelujah the Hills
  • 1971
    A Weekend with Strangers

    A Weekend with Strangers (1971)

    A Weekend with Strangers

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    An attractive youth counselor must resort to murder in order to be free from her sordid past....

    A Weekend with Strangers
  • 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
  • 1976
    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)

    Lost, Lost, Lost

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    Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963....

    Lost, Lost, Lost
  • 1965
    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965)

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

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    Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation owner in order to humiliate him. He mistreats his wife, but she stoically refuses to complain to her...

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
  • 1961
    Guns of the Trees

    Guns of the Trees (1961)

    Guns of the Trees

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    A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living....

    Guns of the Trees
  • 1965
    Goldstein

    Goldstein (1965)

    Goldstein

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    GOLDSTEIN, the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman, is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s. A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters, the film is a funny, warm-hearted ...

    Goldstein
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius (1993)

    The Genius

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    A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts. Gibbons plays a mad scientist who's developed a technique for tra...

    The Genius
  • 2011
    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)

    Sleepless Nights Stories

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    Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Mr. M...

    Sleepless Nights Stories
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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