Born in Flames

Tuesday, July 7 - Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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    Q&A with dir. Lizzie Borden after the 7:20 screening

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Tuesday, July 7 at 7:20: Q&A with director Lizzie Borden after the screening

BORN IN FLAMES rocked the foundations of the 1980s underground. This postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a peaceful democratic socialist revolution. When the Black founder of the Woman’s Army is mysteriously killed, women of all races, classes, and sexual orientation want to blow the system apart. Filmed guerrilla style on the streets of a pre-gentrified New York, BORN IN FLAMES is a Molotov cocktail of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it. The Village Voice’s Melissa Anderson wrote, “this unruly, unclassifiable film — perhaps the sole entry in the hybrid genre of radical-lesbian-feminist sci-fi vérité — premiered two years into the Reagan regime, but its fury proves as bracing today as it was back when this country began its inexorable shift to the right.”

Screening as part of our series Declaration of Independents!

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  • Country USA
  • Year 1983
  • Running Time 80 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor IndieCollect
  • Director Lizzie Borden
  • Cast Honey, Adele Bertei, Kathryn Bigelow, Jean Satterfield, Flo Kennedy, Ron Vawter
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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