Birth of a Nation

(1997)

★ 7 IMDb · 4 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1997

Runtime: 85 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Йонас Мекас

Cast: Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder, Bruce Baillie, Robert Beavers, Jane Wodening, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, James Broughton, L.M. Kit Carson

Plot

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.