Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide.
Adolf is a given name with German origins.
Adolfas Mekas was a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor and educator. With his brother Jonas Mekas, he founded the magazine Film Culture, as well as the Film-Makers' Cooperative and was associated with George Maciunas and the Fluxus art movement at its beginning. He made several short films, culminating in the feature Hallelujah the Hills in 1963, which was played at the Cannes Film Festival of that year and is now considered a classic of American film.
Medvedev and female Medvedeva (Медве́дева), from Russian medved’ (медве́дь), meaning the animal "bear", are Slavic surnames. Notable bearers of the name include:
Adolfas Valeška was a Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter, stage designer, and museum director who worked in Lithuania and in Chicago, Illinois.
The birth of the cinema of Lithuania was in 1909.
Mekas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kubilius is a Lithuanian language family name, literally meaning "the cooper". It may refer to:
Vanagas is a Lithuanian surname that may refer to
Ramanauskas is the masculine form of a Lithuanian family name. Its feminine forms are: Ramanauskienė and Ramanauskaitė. It is a Lithuanized form of the Polish surname Romanowski. Other Slavic equivalents: Romanovsky/Romanovskiy (Russian), Ramanouski (Belarusian). All are toponymic surnames derived from any of locations named Romanów, Romany, or Romanowo, the latter names literally meaning "belonging to Roman."
Valeska or Valeška may refer to the following people:
Adolfas Ramanauskas, code name Vanagas , was a prominent Lithuanian partisan and one of the leaders of the Lithuanian resistance. Ramanauskas was working as a teacher under the Nazi administration when Lithuania was re-occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944–45. He joined the anti-Soviet resistance after being pressured by the NKVD to spy on his students, eventually advancing from a platoon commander to the chairman of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters. Betrayed by a classmate, he was arrested, brutally tortured, and eventually executed. He was the last known partisan commander to be captured.
Algimantas is a Lithuanian masculine given name, often abbreviated as Algis, and may refer to:
Vytautas was a Lithuanian medieval king, Grand Duke, Prince of Hrodna and Prince of Lutsk.
Adolfas Urbšas was an officer in the Lithuanian Army and then the Red Army, rising eventually to the rank of major general (1944).
This is a bibliography of works and articles that have been published about Adolfas Mekas and his career in film and teaching, and that have been used as references in his page.
Adolfas Varanauskas was a Lithuanian athlete. He competed in the men's shot put at the 1964 Summer Olympics, representing the Soviet Union.
Akelaitis is a Lithuanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Šleževičius or Sleževičius is a surname of Lithuanian origin. Notable people with the surname include:
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