Born in Flames

Born in Flames is a comic fantasy of female
rebellion set in the near future. The film looks at the rights of women under a
socialist society in the USA - and finds nothing has changed. When the black
radical founder of the Women's Army is mysteriously killed, a seemingly
impossible coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual
preference - emerges to blow the System apart.
Born in Flames establishes a kaleidoscope, a multi-voiced texture of
seemingly contradictory women's perspectives, including the Women's Army's
political militants, activists from underground radio stations, black women
(many of whom are reluctant to embrace feminism), lesbians (many of whom are
women of color), middle-class white journalists, leftists, punks, housewives,
and trades unionists. The film was a collaborative process in which the actors,
among them Kathryn Bigelow, many of whom were grass roots feminists, played
themselves. "Borden attempts to cinematically map the slogan 'the
personal is political' in all of its contradictory meanings.(...) The strength
of Born in Flames - its radical aesthetic quality - relies on compelling
editing techniques. Borden's gritty, pseudo-documentary style presents a
disjunctive collage of women's individual and collective work." (Christina
Lane, Feminist Hollywood)

Organisation: City of Women
In co-operation with: Kinodvor