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.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

85 min

Cast:

Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder

Quality:

HD

Director:

Jonas Mekas

Release:

1997

Country:

United States

Rating:

7.0