Birth of a Nation

Overview

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.

Cast

Chantal Akerman

Self

Kenneth Anger

Self

Michel Auder

Self

Bruce Baillie

Self

Robert Beavers

Self

J

Jane Wodening

Self

Stan Brakhage

Self

Robert Breer

Self

James Broughton

Self

L.M. Kit Carson

Self

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