Movie Description
Birth of a Nation
(1997)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Jonas Mekas
- Writer : Jonas Mekas
- Editor : Jonas Mekas
- Cast : Chantal Akerman,Kenneth Anger,Michel Auder,Bruce Baillie,Robert Beavers,Jane Wodening,Stan Brakhage,Robert Breer,James Broughton,L.M. Kit Carson,Tom Chomont,Shirley Clarke,Bruce Conner,Tony Conrad,Storm De Hirsch,Stephen Dwoskin,Claudine Eizykman,Morris Engel,Valie Export,Guy Fihman,Allen Ginsberg,Fred Halsted,Birgit Hein,Piero Heliczer,Jerome Hill,Jean Houston,Takahiko Iimura,Ken Jacobs,Anna Karina,Kurt Kren,Peter Kubelka,Malcolm Le Grice,Jacques Ledoux,Gregory J. Markopoulos,Jim McBride,Taylor Mead,Adolfas Mekas,Oona Mekas,Hermann Nitsch,Sheldon Renan,Leni Riefenstahl,Roberto Rossellini,Barbara Rubin,Carolee Schneemann,Paul Sharits,P. Adams Sitney,Harry Smith,Jack Smith,Michael Snow,Cecile Starr,Bhob Stewart,Amy Taubin,Leslie Trumbull,Willard Van Dyke,Viva,Rosa von Praunheim,Andy Warhol,Larry Gottheim,Andrew Noren,Ed Emshwiller,Richard Leacock,Robert Gardner,Charlie Chaplin,Lawrence Jordan,Will Hindle,Hans Richter,Ernie Gehr,Sidney Peterson,Saul Levine,La Monte Young,Jud Yalkut,Paul Schrader,Lewis Jacobs,Peter Bogdanovich,George Maciunas,Robert Kramer,Bill Brand,Robert Creeley,Pascale Dauman,Werner Nekes,Dore O.,Henri Langlois,John Whitney Sr.,Barry Gerson,Scott Bartlett,Nelly Kaplan,Peter Gidal,Wilhelm Hein,Robert Huot,Richard Foreman,John Du Cane,William Raban,Alberto Cavalcanti,Christiane Rochefort,Lionel Rogosin,Marcel Hanoun,Anthony McCall,Diego Cortez,Adolfo Arrieta,Coleen Fitzgibbon,Len Lye,Anna-Lena Wibom,Shigeko Kubota,Gillian Eatherley,David Crosswaite,Amy Greenfield,Stan VanDerBeek,Pola Chapelle,Ken Kelman,Flo Jacobs,Annette Michelson,Joel Singer,Ray Wisniewski,Sally Dixon,Callie Angell,Akiko Iimura,Taka Iimura,Leo Dratfield,Pamela Badyk,Donald Richie,James Blue,Jonas Mekas
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Facts
Original TitleBirth of a Nation
Status Released
Release Information
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1997-08-06
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 25m
Genres
- Documentary
