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Adolfas Mekas - Hallelujah the Hills
35mm 1963 82'
A film by Adolfas Mekas with Peter H. Beard, Marty Greenbaum, Sheila Finn, Peggy Steffans, Jerome Hill, Taylor Mead. Camera: Ed Emshwiller. Assistant: Jonas Mekas. Editing: Adolfas Mekas. Music: Meyer Kupferman.

Adolfas Mekas, born in Lithuania, arrived in the United States with his brother Jonas in 1949. They founded Film Culture, the magazine of independent cinema, in 1954. Adolfas Mekas's Hallelujah the Hills bears witness to his knowledge and love of cinema, as well as the immense freedom to be found in all the films of the New American Cinema.

"Hallelujah the Hills is a gloriously funny and far-out farce about two great big overgrown boy scouts who pratfall in love with the same girl. The weirdest, wooziest, wackiest screen comedyS a slapstick poem, an intellectual hellzapoppin, a gloriously fresh experiment and experience in the cinema of the absurd, the first cubistic comedy of the new world cinema."
Time Magazine, 1963.
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Adolfas Mekas, né en Lithuanie, arrive aux Etats-Unis avec son frère Jonas en 1949. Là, ils fondent Film Culture, revue consacrée au cinéma indépendant. Nourri d'une grande culture cinématographique, il réalise ce long métrage Hallelujah the Hills qui témoigne à la fois de cette culture et de cette immense liberté qu'on retrouvera dans tous les films du New American Cinema.
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