Lizzie Borden thought — or hoped, at least — that her debut film Born in Flames would have felt obsolete by now.
Released in 1983 (but shot and edited over five years with whatever spare change she could scrounge up), Born in Flames’ call to collective action rings disturbingly clear in the contemporary sociopolitical climate, ultimately proving the optimist in Borden wrong.
“I did not expect Born in Flames to be relevant today,” she told Mubi in 2021.
“I thought that those women’s issues expressed in the film would be resolved.
But that’s clearly still not the case.
They are ongoing and in some cases, it’s worse.”…
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