Pola Chapelle
Actor · 1935 – 2021 · Hudson, New York, USA
Pola Chapelle was born on December 18, 1935 in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA. She is known for her work on Windflowers (1968), The Double-Barrelled Detective Story (1965) and Goodbye in the Mirror (1965). She was previously married to Adolfas Mekas.
Movies7
Movie8.4DocumentaryA film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · 10 votes
Movie6.8DocumentaryExperimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · 12 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryJonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.
Birth of a Nation
1997 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DocumentaryA home movie by Adolfas Mekas and wife Pola Chapelle on their travels to Lithuania and Europe. It was filmed concurrently with the more highly regarded “Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania” by Jonas Mekas, brother to Adolfas.
Going Home
1972 · 6 votes
Movie9.0An Adolfas Mekas directed short parodying Italian art films of the time. It was created for use in a scene of the Broadway musical, "Skyscraper," starring Julie Harris and Peter Marshall, with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
Skyscraper
1965 · 1 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryJonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai after decades in exile. Blending personal memory with documentary observation, the film becomes both a portrait of homecoming and a meditation on displacement, family, and the passage of time.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
1972 · 46 votes
Movie10.0DramaArthouse portraiture of a disestablishmentarian during his six-year draft dodge.
Windflowers
1968 · 1 votes