Movie

Birth of a Nation

★ 7/10 · 4 votes 1997 1h 25m Released

Documentary

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