Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden is a feminist filmmaker born in 1958 in Detroit, USA. Her work focuses on gender, race, class, power and capitalism. She is best known for her film Born in Flames (1983), considered by many to be a masterpiece of feminist cinema. In 1986, Borden wrote, directed and produced a controversial independent fiction film, Working Girls, which depicted the working lives of several prostitutes. The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and won Best Film at the Sundance Film Festival. Borden recently published the book Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life (2022), an anthology debunking certain myths and stereotypes associated with stripping and sex work. She is currently working on several television and film projects.
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Born in Flames
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
Born in Flames
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
