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Alexander (Sasha) Hammid (born Hackenschmied) (1907-2004) was one of the avant-garde and documentary cinema’s pioneers. Before immigrating to the United States from Czechoslovakia, Hammid was a major figure in the Czech Avant-Garde. He wrote numerous articles in various film and arts publications on film as an art form. Hammid also began making his first films…
Read Full Article... about Alexander (Sasha) Hammid (1907-2004)On January 23, 2019, the Lithuanian filmmaker, poet, critic, and curator, Jonas Mekas, passed away. Mekas arrived in the United States in 1949 after having spent years in forced labor camps in Nazi Germany and, following the War, displaced persons camps. He went on to help establish major institutions of American avant-garde cinema, including Anthology…
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