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Birth of a Nation (1997)

Birth of a Nation (1997)

Documentary
Release Date: 1997, August 6
Directors: Jonas Mekas
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Robert Creeley, Charlie Chaplin, Viva, Henri Langlois, Anna Karina, Taylor Mead, Allen Ginsberg, Cecile Starr, Diego Cortez, Oona Mekas, Flo Jacobs, Adolfas Mekas

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

artist diary film