Birth of a Nation
06/08/1997
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
Jane Wodening
as Self
Stan Brakhage
as Self
Robert Breer
as Self
James Broughton
as Self
L.M. Kit Carson
as Self
Tom Chomont
as Self
Shirley Clarke
as Self
Bruce Conner
as Self
Tony Conrad
as Self
Storm De Hirsch
as Self
Stephen Dwoskin
as Self
Claudine Eizykman
as Self
Morris Engel
as Self
Valie Export
as Self
Guy Fihman
as Self
Allen Ginsberg
as Self
Fred Halsted
as Self
Birgit Hein
as Self
Piero Heliczer
as Self
Jerome Hill
as Self
Jean Houston
as Self
Takahiko Iimura
as Self
Ken Jacobs
as Self
Anna Karina
as Self
Kurt Kren
as Self
Peter Kubelka
as Self
Malcolm Le Grice
as Self
Jacques Ledoux
as Self
Gregory J. Markopoulos
as Self
Jim McBride
as Self
Taylor Mead
as Self
Adolfas Mekas
as Self
Oona Mekas
as Self
Hermann Nitsch
as Self
Sheldon Renan
as Self
Leni Riefenstahl
as Self
Roberto Rossellini
as Self
Barbara Rubin
as Self
Carolee Schneemann
as Self
Paul Sharits
as Self
P. Adams Sitney
as Self
Harry Smith
as Self
Jack Smith
as Self
Michael Snow
as Self
Cecile Starr
as Self
Bhob Stewart
as Self
Amy Taubin
as Self
Leslie Trumbull
as Self
Willard Van Dyke
as Self
Viva
as Self
Rosa von Praunheim
as Self
Andy Warhol
as Self
Larry Gottheim
as Self
Andrew Noren
as
Ed Emshwiller
as
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