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

Birth of a Nation

A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon.

Becoming Otto

We're going back to Mars. Our newest rover is named Perseverance, and will be launching soon for its seven-month journey to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life. And it's bringing along a friend: a little helicopter named Ingenuity. Ingenuity will test the first powered flight on Mars. This animate Short takes us through the "Seven Minute of Terror" that it takes to land on Mars. We are introduced to the little Helicopter named Ingenuity. Ingenuity will be the first controlled powered flight on another planet. Over the past two decades, missions flown by NASA's Mars Exploration Program have shown us that Mars was once very different from the cold, dry planet it is today. Evidence discovered by landed and orbital missions point to wet conditions billions of years ago. These environments lasted long enough to potentially support the development of microbial life. The Mars 2020/Perseverance rover is designed to better understand the geology of Mars and seek signs of ancient life. The mission will collect and store a set of rock and soil samples that could be returned to Earth in the future.