Adolfas Mekas Movies

  • 1951
    Antifilm #2

    Antifilm #2

    Antifilm #2

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

    Antifilm #2
  • 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
  • 1996
    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

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    Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai...

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
  • 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
  • 1965
    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

    01965HD

    Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation...

    The Double-Barrelled Detective Story
  • 1970
    Heretic

    Heretic

    Heretic

    01970HD

    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
  • 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

    01968HD

    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
  • 1993
    The Genius

    The Genius

    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,...

    The Genius
  • 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