Plot
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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Cast
	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