5th Avenue Cinema Presents: Born in Flames

Dir. Lizzie Borden (1983); US; English; 90 min; DCP

Saturated in discourse, Lizzie Borden's breakthrough film, Born in Flames is a raw commentary on the tension between the facade of a "liberated" post-socialist America and its inherent patriarchal ecology that is so unapologetically sexist it's still topical. Directed, shot and edited by Borden in a guerrilla docu-fiction style, the collage of real surveillance footage, police brutality and news clips against a Black, queer-led Woman's Army and no-wave feminist soundtrack, tells a story that parallels both the struggle and beauty of what another world could look like. Provoking our collective imagining of what might happen if gender-based oppression is met with the transformative power of fire.

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