Birth of a Nation (1997)

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.

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	Chantal Akerman	As: Self
	Kenneth Anger	As: Self
	Michel Auder	As: Self
	Bruce Baillie	As: Self
	Robert Beavers	As: Self

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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 06 August 1997

Country: US

Runtime: 85m

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	Chantal Akerman	Self
	Kenneth Anger	Self
	Michel Auder	Self
	Bruce Baillie	Self
	Robert Beavers	Self
	Jane Wodening	Self
	Stan Brakhage	Self
	Robert Breer	Self
	James Broughton	Self
	L.M. Kit Carson	Self
	Tom Chomont	Self
	Shirley Clarke	Self
	Bruce Conner	Self
	Tony Conrad	Self
	Storm De Hirsch	Self
	Stephen Dwoskin	Self
	Claudine Eizykman	Self
	Morris Engel	Self
	Valie Export	Self
	Guy Fihman	Self
	Allen Ginsberg	Self
	Fred Halsted	Self
	Birgit Hein	Self
	Piero Heliczer	Self
	Jerome Hill	Self
	Jean Houston	Self
	Takahiko Iimura	Self
	Ken Jacobs	Self
	Anna Karina	Self
	Kurt Kren	Self
	Peter Kubelka	Self
	Malcolm Le Grice	Self
	Jacques Ledoux	Self
	Gregory J. Markopoulos	Self
	Jim McBride	Self
	Taylor Mead	Self
	Adolfas Mekas	Self
	Oona Mekas	Self
	Hermann Nitsch	Self
	Sheldon Renan	Self
	Leni Riefenstahl	Self
	Roberto Rossellini	Self
	Barbara Rubin	Self
	Carolee Schneemann	Self
	Paul Sharits	Self
	P. Adams Sitney	Self
	Harry Smith	Self
	Jack Smith	Self
	Michael Snow	Self
	Cecile Starr	Self
	Bhob Stewart	Self
	Amy Taubin	Self
	Leslie Trumbull	Self
	Willard Van Dyke	Self
	Viva	Self
	Rosa von Praunheim	Self
	Andy Warhol	Self
	Larry Gottheim	Self
	Andrew Noren
	Ed Emshwiller