Lizzie Borden – Born in Flames (1983)

Quote:
In near-future New York, 10 years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

Sight & Sound wrote:
Restored on 35mm from the 16mm internegative by Anthology Film Archives, Borden’s 1983 film now looks and sounds as legendary as its reputation deserves, bringing added clarity and urgency to the Women’s Liberation Army and their pirate-radio partners as they fight back against a pseudo-socialist government that is spying on its citizens and pushing women back into the kitchen.

Like Margaret Atwood’s similarly prescient The Handmaid’s Tale (a TV adaptation of which is currently in production for Hulu), Born in Flames is one of the few texts of feminist science fiction to have broached the mainstream, and the Experimenta programme’s practice of looking back – whether through found-footage films or treasures from the archives – in order to look forward has never seemed more necessary. Driven by the sights and sounds of early 80s downtown New York, Borden’s film is also driven – like Morrison’s film – to deconstruct the American media and hold it to account for its misinformation.

Born in Flames’ continued resonance and growing popularity suggests (as Borden did in her Q&A) that we need radical approaches to image-and-sound making more than ever, and that experimental films, attentive to their own sources and processes, can act as reportage in ways that narrative drama cannot. Without Dawson City: Frozen Time, after all, how would we have put into context the revealing fact that Donald Trump’s wealth derived from his grandfather Frederick Trump, Gold Rush-era brothel owner in boomtime Dawson City. “Film was born of an explosive,” reads an early subtitle in Morrison’s film: in the hands of experimental filmmakers aware of their history, explosive it remains.

Born.in.Flames.(Lizzie.Borden.1983).BDRip.576p.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 20 min
Size: 	2.05 GiB
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Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
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Bit rate: 	3 493 kb/s
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, English HOH