Birth of a Nation
7.0(4) 1997-08-06 85 minDocumentary
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
WriterJonas Mekas
Cast & characters
Chantal Akerman
as Self
Kenneth Anger
as Self
Michel Auder
as Self
Bruce Baillie
as Self
Robert Beavers
as Self
Jane Wodening
as Self
Stan Brakhage
as Self
Robert Breer
as Self
James Broughton
as Self
L.M. Kit Carson
as Self
Tom Chomont
as Self
Shirley Clarke
as Self
Bruce Conner
as Self
No photo
Tony Conrad
as Self
Storm De Hirsch
as Self
No photo
Stephen Dwoskin
as Self
Claudine Eizykman
as Self
Morris Engel
as Self
Valie Export
as Self
No photo
Guy Fihman
as Self
Allen Ginsberg
as Self
Fred Halsted
as Self
No photo
Birgit Hein
as Self
Piero Heliczer
as Self
