Event

Hallelujah the Hills

MAY 23, WEDNESDAY AT 7PM
ADOLFAS MEKAS
Hallelujah the Hills
(Adolfas Mekas, 1963, USA, 16mm, 82 min) Adolfas Mekas (Sept. 30, 1925 to 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