Adolfas Mekas Filmes

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    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....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1969
    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

    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...

    Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
  • 1965
    Skyscraper

    Skyscraper

    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,"...

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

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    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
    Underground New York

    Underground New York

    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...

    Underground New York
  • 1970
    Heretic

    Heretic

    Heretic

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    Heretic is composed from the outtakes of Joe Gibbons's no-budget feature The Genius, set to John Zorn's Naked City "soundtrack" album Heretic, and...

    Heretic
  • 1971
    The Orchid

    The Orchid

    The Orchid

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    An experimental film directed by author Samuel R. Delany

    The Orchid
  • 1967
    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    An Interview with the Ambassador from Lapland

    01967HD

    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
  • 1970
    Compañeras and Compañeros

    Compañeras and Compañeros

    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...

    Compañeras and Compañeros
  • 1951
    Antifilm #2

    Antifilm #2

    Antifilm #2

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

    Antifilm #2