Born in Flames
Lizzie Borden/1983/USA/101mins
Museum of Impossible Forms is proud to screen Lizzie Bordon’s Born in Flames, as part of the November edition of Society of Cinema Screenings.
Lizzie Borden’s groundbreaking feminist science fiction film imagines a near-future socialist United States, where women are still subject to repression and exploitation. A radical guerrilla group called the Women’s Army sets about to crush the patriarchal system and infiltrate the media. Made on a tiny budget and accompanied by a brilliant post-punk soundtrack, the films portrayal of the politics of gender, race & class make the film as relevant now as it was in the 1980s.
“Borden constructs this large-scale social drama like a collage, with faux newscasts and talk shows, fictionalized documentary footage, police-surveillance tapes and the officials’ commentary on them, protests and confrontations, organizational meetings and strategy sessions, behind-the-scenes looks at the broadcasters Isabel and Honey on the air, musical performance, and intimate glances at private life in a time of conflict.” – Richard Brody for the Newyorker
In the current political climate Born in Flames feels more relevant than ever – the film picks apart the classism, racism, and sexism that is still rife today whilst being a call to action for activists everywhere.
Schedule:
18:00 doors open - coffee & tea.
18:30 introduction to the film
18:45 screening
20:15 break
20: 30 discussion & feedback
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