Born in Flames

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When
Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019
7 p.m.
Cost: $9
Where
934 SW Salmon St
Portland, OR 97205

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Directed by Lizzie Borden
United States • 1983 • 80 mins. • In English

Borden’s landmark, low-budget revolutionary treatise addresses a semi-documentary, semi-fictional parallel world to ours, where competing feminist groups wander the streets and control the radio waves, and where the “Social Democratic” administration in power is powerless to stop the tide of progress stemming from racial and gender injustice. Focused on the different paths resistance to power can take, Borden’s vision unspools through inventive set-pieces intercut with monologues from two radical radio DJs (Adele Bertei and Honey) who rousingly hold forth on a variety of issues facing the world community. An instant hit upon its premiere at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival, Born in Flames has since influenced countless feminists.

New 35mm print; preserved by Anthology Film Archives with restoration funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation.