Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

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1997•85 min•Documentary
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman
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Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger
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Michel Auder
Michel Auder
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Bruce Baillie
Bruce Baillie
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Robert Beavers
Robert Beavers
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Jane Wodening
Jane Wodening
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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.
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