Jonas Mekas
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Jonas Mekas (; born December 23, 1922 in the village of Semeniškiai, near Biržai) is a Lithuania filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema."
Prior to the Second World War, Mekas set up a theatre with his brother Adolfas Mekas. After the Second World War, he was held in displaced persons camps, in one of which he studied with a teacher of the Stanislavsky System.
The brothers emigrated to the United States in 1949 and studied with...
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