Birth of a Nation

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Documentary

Chantal Akerman

(Self)

Kenneth Anger

(Self)

Michel Auder

(Self)

Bruce Baillie

(Self)

Robert Beavers

(Self)

Jane Wodening

(Self)

Stan Brakhage

(Self)

Robert Breer

(Self)

James Broughton

(Self)

L.M. Kit Carson

(Self)

Tom Chomont

(Self)

Shirley Clarke

(Self)

Bruce Conner

(Self)

Tony Conrad

(Self)

Storm De Hirsch

(Self)

Stephen Dwoskin

(Self)

Claudine Eizykman

(Self)

Morris Engel

(Self)

Valie Export

(Self)

Guy Fihman

(Self)

Allen Ginsberg

(Self)

Fred Halsted

(Self)

Birgit Hein

(Self)

Piero Heliczer

(Self)

Jerome Hill

(Self)

Jean Houston

(Self)

Takahiko Iimura

(Self)

Ken Jacobs

(Self)

Anna Karina

(Self)

Kurt Kren

(Self)

Peter Kubelka

(Self)

Malcolm Le Grice

(Self)

Jacques Ledoux

(Self)

Gregory J. Markopoulos

(Self)

Jim McBride

(Self)

Taylor Mead

(Self)

Adolfas Mekas

(Self)

Oona Mekas

(Self)

Hermann Nitsch

(Self)

Sheldon Renan

(Self)

Leni Riefenstahl

(Self)

Roberto Rossellini

(Self)

Barbara Rubin

(Self)

Carolee Schneemann

(Self)

Paul Sharits

(Self)

P. Adams Sitney

(Self)

Harry Smith

(Self)

Jack Smith

(Self)

Michael Snow

(Self)

Cecile Starr

(Self)

Bhob Stewart

(Self)

Amy Taubin

(Self)

Leslie Trumbull

(Self)

Willard Van Dyke

(Self)

Viva

(Self)

Rosa von Praunheim

(Self)

Andy Warhol

(Self)

Larry Gottheim

(Self)

Andrew Noren

Ed Emshwiller