Born in Flames: A Film by Lizzie Borden
Born in Flames: A Film by Lizzie Borden
"Born in Flames poses the question of whether oppression against women will be eliminated under any kind of social system. […] It is a fantasy presenting a group of women who, confronted with the very “ordinary” oppression women have been experiencing for decades, refuse to take it any longer and become armed fighters against the government. Their position is that oppression against women is not eliminated automatically with 'socialism' – not only do political values have to change, cultural values must change and become embedded in practice." — Lizzie Borden in Heresies #16, 1983. Born in Flames is an illustrated photo-book of Lizzie Borden’s classic queer-feminist film. Born In Flames is not a prescription for revolution. Instead, it is Lizzie Borden’s conjectural answer to the question; ‘what if the very ordinary oppression that women have been experiencing for generations finally became something that would force a group of women to become armed and take over the media in order to redirect meaning, reclaim the language?’ Set in an alternative social democratic United States, this sci-fi documentary imagines the beginnings of a feminist revolution in all of its conflict and multiplicity of voice. It includes an interview with Borden conducted by Kaisa Lassinaro, as well as the lyrics of Undercover Nation by The Bloods and Born in Flames by Red Crayola (Printed Matter).