Birth of a Nation

Documentary

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jonas Mekas

Status Released

Release Date 1997-08-06

Storyline

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.