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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas
United States of America
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Synopsis
One hundred and sixty appearances by avant-garde filmmakers and film activists from 1955 to 1996 make up this film with music by Wagner and Hermann Nitsch and vocals by Jean Houston.
“Why Birth of a Nation? Because the independents of cinema is a nation in itself. We are surrounded by a commercial cinema Nation same way as the indigenous people of United States or any other country are surrounded by the Ruling Powers. We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are Cinema.” - Jonas Mekas.
Director biography
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) was a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer and curator, considered the godfather of American avant-garde cinema and the definitive representative of diary filmmaking. In addition to his work in film preservation and dissemination with the creation and development of the Anthology Film Archives, films by him such as Walden (1969) and Lost Lost Lost (1976) have informed the path of more and more filmmakers around the world.
Finished
Sessions
May
Tuesday 24
18:30 h
Filmoteca Española. Cine Doré. Sala 2
Credits
Language
English - Subtitles in spanish
Director
Jonas Mekas