

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.
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Actors

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
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