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“I was so angry when I made it—now I think women are angry all over again and reclaiming that in a new way.” —Lizzie BordenRadical indie filmmaker Lizzie Borden set her 1983 sci-fi film, Born in Flames, in a dystopian future (aka now). Using documentary techniques alongside satirical comedy and invented narratives to tell the story of a feminist insurgency against a “Socialist Democratic” government, the film follows the news that the Black radical founder of the Women’s Army (Jeanne Satterfield) has gone missing in New York City and the diverse coalition of queer feminist revolutionaries who rise up to fight the System. 1983, 80 mins, 35mm.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with restoration funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation.
A Q&A with Lizzie Borden and Jon Davies follows the screening.
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