All this is not a fantasy: the life and work of Adolfas Mekas

29th November and 1-2 December is arranged a film retrospective by Adolfas Mekas and his students at KCCC Exhibition Hall (Didzioji Vandens str. 2).

Adolfas Mekas is a very interesting figure who usually was left in a shadow of his brother Jonas Mekas. But he is a must-to-know person. He is called as a comic iconoclast of independent American cinema. He participated in the movement of Fluxus together with Yoko Ono. Together with his brother they established an influential magazine “Film Culture”, joined a group of “New American Cinema”. He was a professor of cinema who spread this virus between his students and others who could hear him talking about it.

Join a week of avant-garde and get closer to Adolfas Mekas.
Here is a list of upcoming events:

29th November, 2012
6 p.m. “Screening of short film about Pola and Adolfas visiting Lithuania in 2007, director Mikas Žukauskas,
Hallelujah the Hills, 1963, 82 min., Adolfas Mekas,
Q&As with Pola Chapelle and John Pruitt after the screening”

1st December
2.30 p.m. The Brig, 1964, 68 min., Adolfas & Jonas Mekas
4 p.m. Gong Home, 1973, 60 min., Adolfas Mekas & Pola Chapelle
5.20 p.m. The Double Barreled Detective Story, 1965, 90 min., Adolfas Mekas

2nd December
2.20 p.m. Cage/Canningham, 1991, 95 min., Elliot Caplan
4 p.m. John & Jane, 2005, 79 min., Ashim Ahluwalia
5.30 p.m.  Frank & Cindy, 2008, 81 min., G. J. Echternkamp

No admission fee