Adolfas Mekas
The Adolfas Diaries : Book 2 February 1947-October 1949
Author(s) Adolfas Mekas
Format paperback book
Year 2016
Language(s) English
Pages 102 pages
Description
With the release of his first feature film "Hallelujah The Hills" in 1963, came international recognition. HTH was the surprise hit of the Cannes Film Festival that year, followed by the Silver Sail award at the Locarno Festival, an invitation to the first New York Film Festival and a 15-week run at the Fifth Avenue Cinema in New York City. Through his editorship with brother Jonas of "Film Culture" magazine, he proved to be an early instigator - getting people to think about and appreciate films. He was also, when you spent time with him day to day, a master, a squint-eyed magician at making gray blues blue. He could always make a party when boredom or misery threatened. His past gave him plenty of opportunities to overcome misery: having spent part of his adolescence first in a Nazi labor camp and then, after the war, in a succession of displaced persons camps. His diaries, now winnowed and carefully edited by his wife, singer and artistic producer Pola Chapelle, bear witness to what is too often called too easily, the triumph of the human spirit.