American filmmaker, artist and curator of Lithuanian origin, often called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Lived and worked in New York. While living in downtown New York, he became interested in the avant-garde films shown in his area's cinemas and in 1956 started making his own films. Mr. Mek has become one of America's leading avant-garde filmmakers and has worked in a variety of film curatorial roles. Since 1954 published and edited the English bi-monthly film magazine Film Culture, 1955-1957. edited Intro Bulletin, a monthly film arts newspaper. Since 1958 edited the Movie Journal section of The Village Voice. He published articles on film issues in the magazines he edited, as well as in the publications "Cinemages", "Films in Review", "Film Book", "Cinema". There were film studio and discussion meeting programs from 1951 to 1953. Film Study Group, 1953-54. Host of Film Forum. 1962 founded The Film Makers' Cooperative with his brother, and in 1964 The Filmmakers' Cinematheque, which gradually grew into the Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest archives of American avant-garde film.

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