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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas

Birth of a Nation

  • Documentary
RELEASE

1997-08-06

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

85 min

Description

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.