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Mekas, Jonas (American and Lithuanian filmmaker and poet, 1922-2019)
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Note: Filmmaker, curator, archivist, critic and spokesperson for films variously known as experimental, underground, or avant-garde. Beginning in 1958, he wrote a column, Movie Journal, for The Village Voice. He founded the magazine Film Culture with his brother Adolfas Mekas, published quarterly from 1955 to 1996. He co-founded and both the Film-Maker's Cooperative and the Anthology Film Archive. He was active almost entirely in New York City from 1949. |
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Brakhage, Stan |
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(American filmmaker, 1933-2003) [500122419] |
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Frank, Robert |
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(American photographer and filmmaker, 1924-2019) [500019916] |
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Smith, Jack |
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(American filmmaker, 1932-1989) [500350481] |
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Warhol, Andy |
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(American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987) [500006031] |
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Anthology Film Archives |
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(American repository, New York City, contemporary) [500303703] |
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(American and Lithuanian filmmaker and poet, 1922-2019) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American author, filmmaker, b.1922) ..... [BHA]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Lithuanian artist, born 1922) ..... [MoMA]
(Lithuanian photographer, 1922-2019) ..... [RKD]
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| Mekas, Jonas ........ | [BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP] |
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Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
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BHA, Authority file (1973-)
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GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
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Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
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RKD Artists database (2000-) 411484
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Weber, Jonas Mekas, New York Times [online] (2019) obit. | | | | | |
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