Birth of a Nation
7
4 Reviews
1997
1h 25min
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.
Storyline
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.
Released
August 1997
Runtime
1h 25min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
English
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
Directing
Ed Emshwiller
Self
Richard Leacock
Self
Robert Gardner
Self
Charlie Chaplin
Self
Lawrence Jordan
Self
Will Hindle
Self
Hans Richter
Self
Ernie Gehr
Self
Sidney Peterson
Self
Saul Levine
Self
La Monte Young
Self
Jud Yalkut
Self
Paul Schrader
Self
Lewis Jacobs
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
George Maciunas
Self
Robert Kramer
Self
Bill Brand
Self
Robert Creeley
Self
Pascale Dauman
Self
Werner Nekes
Self
Dore O.
Self
Henri Langlois
Self
John Whitney Sr.
Self
Barry Gerson
Self
Scott Bartlett
Self
Nelly Kaplan
Self
Peter Gidal
Self
Wilhelm Hein
Self
Robert Huot
Self
Richard Foreman
Self
John Du Cane
Self
William Raban
Self
Alberto Cavalcanti
Self
Christiane Rochefort
Self
Lionel Rogosin
Self
Marcel Hanoun
Self
Anthony McCall
Self
Diego Cortez
Self
Adolfo Arrieta
Self
Coleen Fitzgibbon
Self
Len Lye
Self
Anna-Lena Wibom
Self
Shigeko Kubota
Self
Gillian Eatherley
Self
David Crosswaite
Self
Amy Greenfield
Self
Stan VanDerBeek
Self
Pola Chapelle
Self
Ken Kelman
Self
Flo Jacobs
Self
Annette Michelson
Self
Joel Singer
Self
Ray Wisniewski
Self
Sally Dixon
Self
Callie Angell
Self
Akiko Iimura
Self
Taka Iimura
Self
Leo Dratfield
Self
Pamela Badyk
Self
Donald Richie
Self
James Blue
Self
Jonas Mekas
Self
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