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Birth of a Nation

6.3

3 reviews

Documentary

1h 25m

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...

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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.

DirectorJonas Mekas
Release6 August 1997
GenreDocumentary
Duration1h 25m
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6.3
3 reviews
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Chantal Akerman

Self

Kenneth Anger

Self

Michel Auder

Self

Bruce Baillie

Self

Robert Beavers

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

Allen Ginsberg

Self

Fred Halsted

Self

Birgit Hein

Self

Piero Heliczer

Self

Jerome Hill

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

Amy Taubin

Self

Willard Van Dyke

Self

Viva

Self

Rosa von Praunheim

Self

Andy Warhol

Self

Larry Gottheim

Self

Andrew Noren

Ed Emshwiller

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