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.

• Jonas MekasDirector
• Jonas MekasWriter

• Chantal AkermanSelf
• Kenneth AngerSelf
• Michel AuderSelf
• Bruce BaillieSelf
• Robert BeaversSelf
• Jane WodeningSelf
• Stan BrakhageSelf
• Robert BreerSelf
• James BroughtonSelf
• L.M. Kit CarsonSelf
• Tom ChomontSelf
• Shirley ClarkeSelf