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Birth of a Nation

6.3 85 mins Documentary   1997
Director(s): Jonas Mekas

Release Date: 06 Wed, Aug 1997

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.

Casts of Birth of a Nation

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

Tony Conrad

as Self

Storm De Hirsch

as Self

Stephen Dwoskin

as Self

Morris Engel

as Self

Valie Export

as Self

Guy Fihman

as Self

Allen Ginsberg

as Self

Fred Halsted

as Self

Birgit Hein

as Self

Piero Heliczer

as Self

Jerome Hill

as Self

Jean Houston

as Self

Takahiko Iimura

as Self

Ken Jacobs

as Self

Anna Karina

as Self

Kurt Kren

as Self

Peter Kubelka

as Self

Jacques Ledoux

as Self

Jim McBride

as Self

Taylor Mead

as Self

Adolfas Mekas

as Self

Oona Mekas

as Self

Hermann Nitsch

as Self

Sheldon Renan

as Self

Barbara Rubin

as Self

Paul Sharits

as Self

P. Adams Sitney

as Self

Harry Smith

as Self

Jack Smith

as Self

Michael Snow

as Self

Cecile Starr

as Self

Bhob Stewart

as Self

Amy Taubin

as Self

Leslie Trumbull

as Self

Viva

as Self

Andy Warhol

as Self

Larry Gottheim

as Self

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