The Village Voice’s movie critic arrived from a DP camp in poverty

Evidence

Jonas Mekas, a thirty-seven-year-old Lithuanian immigrant who had arrived in New York ten years earlier from a German displaced persons camp, edited a magazine called Film Culture and lived in poverty with his brother Adolfas on Avenue B. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 27

Categorization

• XREF: Mekas the DP-camp immigrant editing an avant-garde film magazine in poverty is an early instance of the cheap-rent/immigrant-material-conditions pattern this book argues produced the avant-garde.