1986 | United States | Fiction

Born in Flames

  • English English 80 mins
  • Director | Lizzie Borden
  • Writer | Ed Bowes, Lizzie Borden
  • Producer | Lizzie Borden

STATUS: Released

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A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden’s explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a social-democratic utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals—led by Black, lesbian, and working-class women—join forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, Born in Flames is a shock wave of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.

Feminist Revolutionary Queer Guerrilla Futuristic
Film Organizations
The Criterion Collection
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