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Experimental Memoria III: Adolfas Mekas
Featuring: Hallelujah the Hills (1963)
Advance tickets available online
Experimental Memoria is a special series commemorating the work of three notable experimental and underground filmmakers who passed away in 2011.
Adolfas Mekas (Sept. 30, 1925 - May 31, 2011) co-founded, with his brother Jonas, the groundbreaking journal Film Culture, co-founded the film department at Bard College where he taught for decades, and made a handful of films that left their mark on the New American Cinema movement. His debut feature, Hallelujah The Hills, is a lighthearted surreal comedy in which two men vie for the love of Vera, played by two different actresses to capture the suitors' visions of the ideal woman. Simultaneously an art film and a parody of art films, it is packed with references to silent comedy, the French New Wave and even Kurosawa's samurai films.
"A slapstick poem, an intellectual hellzapoppin, a gloriously fresh experiment and experience in the cinema of the absurd."
— Time magazine
"Imagine a combination of Huckleberry Finn, Pull My Daisy, the Marx Brothers, and the complete works of Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith, you have got it. What have you got? A film which is both hilariously funny and ravishingly lyrical."
— The Guardian (UK)
