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Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.


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Author Bio


  • NameJonas Mekas
  • DescriptionLithuanian filmmaker
  • BornDecember 24, 1922
  • CountryLithuania; United States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Poet; Writer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Lithuanian National Prize