Birth of a Nation (1983)
85 min
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.
- Release date
- August 6, 1997
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Hermann Nitsch
Cast
- Chantal Akerman as Self
- Kenneth Anger as Self
- Michel Auder as Self
- Bruce Baillie as Self
- Robert Beavers as Self
- Stan Brakhage as Self
- Robert Breer as Self
- James Broughton as Self
- L.M. Kit Carson as Self
Crew
- Charles Chaplin · Archive footage
- Jonas Mekas · Director
- Hermann Nitsch · Composer