Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06 | 85 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Chantal AkermanSelf
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Kenneth AngerSelf
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Michel AuderSelf
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Bruce BaillieSelf
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Robert BeaversSelf
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Stan BrakhageSelf
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Robert BreerSelf
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James BroughtonSelf
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L.M. Kit CarsonSelf
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Tom ChomontSelf
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Shirley ClarkeSelf
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Bruce ConnerSelf
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Storm De HirschSelf
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Stephen DwoskinSelf
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Claudine EizykmanSelf
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Morris EngelSelf
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Valie ExportSelf
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