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    Born in Flames

    Lizzie Borden 1983 USA Fiction color 80min English, French DCP
    In a near-future New York, 10 years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” the promises of equality for all remain unfulfilled. The suspicious death of black women’s activist Adelaide (Jeanne Satterfield) while in police custody catalyzes women across lines of race, class, and sexuality to take action and lead their own counterrevolution. With a provocative, documentary style inspired by guerilla filmmaking, the film captures the disruptive energy and immediacy of revolt, set to a post-punk soundtrack. Radical in both its style and politics, Born in Flames anticipated the urgency of intersectional feminism in the face of a suppressive society.

    Director

    Lizzie Borden

    Lizzie Borden is a writer-director based in Los Angeles. Her most famous films include Born in Flames (1983), Working Girls (1986), and Inside Out (1991). Borden is currently developing the film Rialto, about freedom of choice, a play about Nina Simone entitled The Queen of Shebang, and a TV series about strippers with Antonia Crane.

    Lizzie Borden

    1994 Erotique- "Let's Talk About Love"

    1992 Love Crimes

    1991 Inside Out

    1986 Working Girls

    1983 Born in Flames

    1976 Regrouping

    Director: Lizzie Borden

    Writer: Lizzie Borden, Ed Bowes

    Producer: Lizzie Borden

    Editor: Lizzie Borden

    Cinematographer: Ed Bowes, Al Santana

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