Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas1997-08-06
6.3
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.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Chantal Akerman | Self | Unowned |
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Kenneth Anger | Self | Unowned |
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Michel Auder | Self | Unowned |
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Bruce Baillie | Self | Unowned |
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Robert Beavers | Self | Unowned |
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Jane Wodening | Self | Unowned |
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Stan Brakhage | Self | Unowned |
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Robert Breer | Self | Unowned |
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James Broughton | Self | Unowned |
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L.M. Kit Carson | Self | Unowned |
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Tom Chomont | Self | Unowned |
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Shirley Clarke | Self | Unowned |
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Bruce Conner | Self | Unowned |
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Tony Conrad | Self | Unowned |
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Storm De Hirsch | Self | Unowned |
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Stephen Dwoskin | Self | Unowned |
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Claudine Eizykman | Self | Unowned |
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Morris Engel | Self | Unowned |
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Valie Export | Self | Unowned |
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Guy Fihman | Self | Unowned |
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Allen Ginsberg | Self | Unowned |
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Fred Halsted | Self | Unowned |
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Birgit Hein | Self | Unowned |
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Piero Heliczer | Self | Unowned |
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Jerome Hill | Self | Unowned |
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Jean Houston | Self | Unowned |
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Takahiko Iimura | Self | Unowned |
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Ken Jacobs | Self | Unowned |
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Anna Karina | Self | Unowned |
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Kurt Kren | Self | Unowned |
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Peter Kubelka | Self | Unowned |
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Malcolm Le Grice | Self | Unowned |
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Jacques Ledoux | Self | Unowned |
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Gregory J. Markopoulos | Self | Unowned |
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Jim McBride | Self | Unowned |
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Taylor Mead | Self | Unowned |
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Adolfas Mekas | Self | Unowned |
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Oona Mekas | Self | Unowned |
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Hermann Nitsch | Self | Unowned |
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Sheldon Renan | Self | Unowned |
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Leni Riefenstahl | Self | Unowned |
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Roberto Rossellini | Self | Unowned |
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Barbara Rubin | Self | Unowned |
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Carolee Schneemann | Self | Unowned |
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Paul Sharits | Self | Unowned |
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P. Adams Sitney | Self | Unowned |
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Harry Smith | Self | Unowned |
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Jack Smith | Self | Unowned |
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Michael Snow | Self | Unowned |
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Cecile Starr | Self | Unowned |
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Bhob Stewart | Self | Unowned |
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Amy Taubin | Self | Unowned |
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Leslie Trumbull | Self | Unowned |
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Willard Van Dyke | Self | Unowned |
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Viva | Self | Unowned |
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Rosa von Praunheim | Self | Unowned |
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Andy Warhol | Self | Unowned |
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Larry Gottheim | Self | Unowned |
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Andrew Noren | Unowned | |
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Ed Emshwiller | Unowned |