Movies: Adolfas Mekas
- 2021
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2021)
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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....
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (2013)
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An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
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A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....
- 1966
The Love Merchant (1966)
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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...
- 1996
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1996)
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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....
- 1964
The Brig (1964)
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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...
- 2007
365 Day Project (2007)
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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...
- 1963
Hallelujah the Hills (1963)
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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....
- 1971
A Weekend with Strangers (1971)
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An attractive youth counselor must resort to murder in order to be free from her sordid past....
- 1967
An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland (1967)
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Adolfas starred in, directed, and edited this Vietnam comedy, produced by Pola Chapelle and shot by Jonas Mekas....
- 1976
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
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Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963....
- 1965
The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965)
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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...
- 1961
Guns of the Trees (1961)
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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....
- 1965
Goldstein (1965)
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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 ...
- 1993
The Genius (1993)
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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...
- 2011
Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
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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...
- 1968
Underground New York (1968)
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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...
- 1969
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969)
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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...
- 1971
Journey to Lithuania (1971)
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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...