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Birth of a Nation

1997 · 85 min

A flickering, affectionate scrapbook of faces and moments, like leafing through a friend's home movies of a vanished bohemia.

Directed by: Jonas Mekas
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder

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.

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Directed by: Jonas Mekas
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
friendship
memory
identity
isolation
Places: big city
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Humour	3
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Complexity	5
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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Jonas Mekas
Written by: Jonas Mekas
Starring: Chantal Akerman, Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder, Bruce Baillie, Robert Beavers, Jane Wodening, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer
Runtime: 85 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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