Born in Flames
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Date: January 01, 1983 to December 31, 1983
Dates Note: 1983
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with restoration funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation
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Lizzie Borden’s New York Feminisms TrilogyDescription:
Born in Flames is set in a near-future New York City on the tenth anniversary of a “social-democratic war of liberation,” where self-congratulatory government messaging on mainstream media is countered by critical broadcasts on pirate radio and violence and unrest in the streets, and a Black-led “women’s liberation army” advised by Zella Wylie—played by real-life lawyer and activist Flo Kennedy—roams. “Applying the visual cues of experimental and documentary filmmaking, this explosive work offers a speculative, feminist polemic set in a potential future that mirrors both the present in which it was made and ours. . . . Borden’s fevered 1983 film is absolutely one we should be watching right now” (Yasmina Price, Vulture).
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