About 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.
Movie details
- Release date
- 1997-08-06
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Rating
- 7.0/10 (4 votes)
- Language
- EN
- Country
- United States of America
- Director
- Jonas Mekas
- Writer
- Jonas Mekas
Cast
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