Birth of a Nation

Mekas lidera uma vanguarda arquivística, um desfile acelerado de 160 pessoas do cinema underground que ele capturou em filme ao longo de quatro décadas, descrito como, "160 portraits or rather appearances, sketches and glimpses of avant-garde, independent filmmakers and film activists between 1955 and 1996. Why 'Birth of a Nation'? Because the film independents IS a nation in itself. We are surrounded by commercial cinema Nation same way as the indigenous people of the United States or of any other country are surrounded by the Ruling Powers. We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema. We are the cinema."