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Birth of a Nation (1997)
Directed by Jonas Mekas
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.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Chantal Akerman | Kenneth Anger | Michel Auder | Bruce Baillie | Robert Beavers | Jane Brakhage | Stan Brakhage | Robert Breer | James Broughton | L.M. Kit Carson | Tom Chomont | Shirley Clarke | Bruce Conner | Tony Conrad | Storm De Hirsch | Stephen Dwoskin | Claudine Eizykman | Morris Engel | Valie Export | Guy Fihman | Allen Ginsberg | Fred Halsted | Birgit Hein | Piero Heliczer | Jerome Hill | Jean Houston | Takahiko Iimura | Ken Jacobs | Anna Karina | Kurt Kren | Peter Kubelka | Malcolm Le Grice | Jacques Ledoux | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Jim McBride | Taylor Mead | Adolfas Mekas | Oona Mekas | Hermann Nitsch | Sheldon Renan | Leni Riefenstahl | Roberto Rossellini | Barbara Rubin | Carolee Schneemann | Paul Sharits | P. Adams Sitney | Harry Smith | Jack Smith | Michael Snow | Cecile Starr | Bhob Stewart | Amy Taubin | Leslie Trumbull | Willard Van Dyke | Viva | Rosa von Praunheim | Andy Warhol | Larry Gottheim | Andrew Noren | Ed Emshwiller