Imre Pál was born in Budapest in 1904. His attraction to arts showed at an early age, at the age of twelve. The little pocket money he earned by being a stage hand at the Opera House, unlike her peers, he did not spend on candy, but buying art journals and drawings.

He was only 20 years old when he and his brother, Árpád Mezei began a Dadaist magazine named 'IS' which only had two issues, however, the failure did not discourage him. In 1931 he launched a new avant-garde magazine, called 'Index'. In the meantime, he was the man who illegally distributed Kassák's 'Ma' that was edited in Vienna.

Beginning in 1926, he worked at the 'Theatre Life' editing the film column. He published articles and poems in Kassák's journals, the 'Documents', and 'Work'. In 1937 he began a film magazine entitled 'Star'. It was published for fifty years.