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

Jane Wodening

Self

Stan Brakhage

Self

Robert Breer

Self

James Broughton

Self

L.M. Kit Carson

Self

Tom Chomont

Self

Shirley Clarke

Self