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Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

Jonas Mekas

1997

  • Documentary
7.0

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 & crew

  • Jonas MekasDirector
  • Chantal AkermanSelf
  • Kenneth AngerSelf
  • Michel AuderSelf
  • Bruce BaillieSelf
  • Robert BeaversSelf
  • Jane WodeningSelf
  • Stan BrakhageSelf
  • Robert BreerSelf

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