Birth of a Nation
06/08/1997
1h 25m
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
Bruce Conner
Self
Tony Conrad
Self
Storm De Hirsch
Self
Stephen Dwoskin
Self
Claudine Eizykman
Self
Morris Engel
Self
Valie Export
Self
Guy Fihman
Self
Allen Ginsberg
Self
Fred Halsted
Self
Birgit Hein
Self
Piero Heliczer
Self
Jerome Hill
Self
Jean Houston
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
Cecile Starr
Self
Bhob Stewart
Self
Amy Taubin
Self
Leslie Trumbull
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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