Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

6.3

English/85 min./1997

Genres

Synopsis

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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

Allen Ginsberg

Fred Halsted

Piero Heliczer

Jerome Hill

Takahiko Iimura

Ken Jacobs

Anna Karina

Kurt Kren

Malcolm Le Grice

Jacques Ledoux

Gregory J. Markopoulos

Jim McBride

Taylor Mead

Adolfas Mekas

Sheldon Renan

Leni Riefenstahl

Roberto Rossellini

Barbara Rubin

Carolee Schneemann

Paul Sharits

P. Adams Sitney

Harry Smith

Jack Smith

Michael Snow

Amy Taubin

Willard Van Dyke

Viva

Rosa von Praunheim

Andy Warhol

Larry Gottheim

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