{"id":5082,"date":"2013-01-11T18:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:52:50","slug":"birth-of-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2013\/01\/11\/birth-of-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of a Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>BIRTH OF A NATION<br \/>\nFriday 11 January 2013, at 6:20pm<br \/>\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some 160 brief portraits of filmmakers and activists, ranging from Chaplin and Langlois to Anger and Gidal. Many were filmed in London during Mekas\u2019 visit to the NFT\u2019s 1973 Avant-Garde Festival. \u2018Why <em>Birth of a Nation<\/em>? Because the independent cinema <em>is<\/em> a nation in itself. We are surrounded by the commercial cinema nation same way as the indigenous people of the United States or of any other country are surrounded by ruling powers. We are the invisible, but essential nation of cinema.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonas Mekas, Birth of a Nation<\/strong><strong>, USA, 1997, 80 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Music Hermann Nitsch, Richard Wagner. Voice Jean Houston. With Jack Smith, Jacques Tati, Chantal Akerman, Roberto Rossellini.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also screening Thursday 17 January at 8:40pm.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRTH OF A NATION Friday 11 January 2013, at 6:20pm London BFI Southbank NFT2 Some 160 brief portraits of filmmakers and activists, ranging from Chaplin and Langlois to Anger and Gidal. Many were filmed in London during Mekas\u2019 visit to the NFT\u2019s 1973 Avant-Garde Festival. \u2018Why Birth of a Nation? Because the independent cinema is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonas-mekas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}