Das Filmforum der HBK präsentiert im Wintersemester 2020/2021:

Montag | 11.01.21 | 19:00 h

Lizzie Borden – Born in Flames

(kuratiert und präsentiert von Rita Macedo)

„Born in Flames“ spielt in der Zukunft – zehn Jahre nach einer sozialistischen Revolution in Amerika. Auch in diesem alternativen Amerika hat sich für Frauen nichts geändert. Unterdrückung, alltägliche Diskriminierung, sexuelle Übergriffe, Doppelbelastung – den Frauen reicht es. Sie verbünden sich quer zu sozialen, ethnischen, kulturellen oder sexuellen Identitäten und nehmen den Kampf auf. (Verleihinfo Salzgeber Medien)

Lizzie Borden – Born in Flames
90 min | 1983 | digifile (16mm) | col | mono | OVen (UTdt) | US

Set ten years after a fictional American Socialist revolution, Born in Flames follows several factions of NYC women at unrest with their country’s supposed political utopia. A country that still ignores intersectional issues of racial injustice, unequal pay, sexual harassment, and queer identity bias. Borden’s DIY, low-budget film is a semi-documentary, semi-fictional portrait of a world parallel to ours, in which several unassociated resistance groups rise up in a crisis, all dedicated to the same goals of feminist politics, but in disagreement on the tactics necessary to achieve them. (RM)

Lizzie Borden (*1958) is known for her unique feminist and political approach to filmmaking. Borden began experimenting with film after graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in art. Her body of work investigates topics such as race, class, power and capitalism. Her work has been extensively shown in festivals such as Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance as well as in galleries and art institutions.

[ Abbildung oben: aus der Film 'Born in Flames' (1983) von Lizzie Borden ]