Adolfas Mekas

Adolfas Mekas was born on Sep 30, 1925 in Lithuania. Adolfas Mekas's big-screen debut came with Guns of the Trees directed by Jonas Mekas in 1961, strarring Gregory. Adolfas Mekas is known for The Brig directed by Jonas Mekas, Warren Finnerty stars as Guard and Jim Anderson as Guard. The most recent award Adolfas Mekas achieved is Locarno International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Adolfas Mekas plays is A Weekend with Strangers which will be released on Jul 23, 1971.

In 1972, Adolfas joined the Film Department at Bard College, which had been founded in 1970 by Jon Rubin and a group of radical students. In the years before his academic tenure, Mekas was an active writer, scholar, and filmmaker. He co-founded (along with his brother Jonas) and edited "Film Culture" Magazine from 1953-1976. His extensive filmography includes "Hallelujah the Hills" and "Going Home, " a personal documentary about his journey to native country Lithuania, his first return since he and his brother survived the country's WWII Nazi invasion. With the continued blessing of St. Tula, the patron saint of cinema, Mekas taught film at Bard College in the Hudson River Valley where he lived with his wife Pola Chapelle.