Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas

male, 87 years old
poet, Lithuanian-American, experimental film, displaced persons, avant-garde cinema, FilmCulture…The Film Makers Cooperative, Anthology Film Archives, film director
Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema."
Manny Farber

Manny Farber

male
painter, Comics critic, cavalier, Auteur, ArtForum, Commentary Magazine…FilmCulture, film critic, film comment, B film
Manny Farber is an American painter and film critic, born in 1917 in Douglas, Arizona. He taught at the University of California San Diego. His...
Gregory Markopoulos

Gregory Markopoulos

male, deceased (1992)
Greek-American, Visionary Film, USC Film School, film director, art institute of chicago, New American Cinema…FilmCulture, experimental film, Film editor, film producer, Twice a Man film director
Gregory Markopoulos (March 12 1928 - November 12 1992) was an American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents,...

David Ehrenstein

male, 62 years old
African American, gay, LGBT African American, homosexuality, village voice, cahiers du cinema…Film Quarterly, FilmCulture, Rock On Film, film critic, film comment
David Ehrenstein (born February 18, 1947, in New York City) is an American critic who focuses primarily on issues of homosexuality in cinema. He...
Adolfas Mekas

Adolfas Mekas

male, 84 years old (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States)
professor, film, film director, bard college, lithuanian, going home…FilmCulture
Adolfas Mekas (born 1925 in Lithuania) is a Lithuanian film director.

Arlene Croce

female, 75 years old
American dance critic, the new yorker, FilmCulture, An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, Reeling
Arlene Croce (born 1934) was a dance critic for "The New Yorker" magazine from 1973 to 1998. Prior to her long career as a dance writer, she also...