Birth of a Nation

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.

Country: United States of America

Cast

Chantal Akerman

Kenneth Anger

Michel Auder

Bruce Baillie

Robert Beavers

Jane Wodening

Stan Brakhage

Robert Breer