Director
Lizzie Borden
Starring
Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield
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Certificate
15
Run Time
80 mins
Release Year
1983
Country of Origin
USA
Language
English, French
Format
35mm
Director of Photography: Ed Bowes, Al Santana
Editor: Lizzie Borden
Produced by: Lizzie Borden
Screenplay by: Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden presents: Born in Flames
Part of the Retrospective: The Future Is History Strand
Released in 1983 and screened at EIFF that year, Borden’s second feature imagines a future socialist United States, where women are still subject to repression and exploitation. A radical guerilla group called the Women’s Army sets about to crush the patriarchal system and infiltrate the media. Filmed in a quasi-documentary style and accompanied by a throbbing soundtrack, the film has an irresistible immediacy that makes it as relevant now as it was in the 1980s. Fight the power!
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with restoration funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation.