by Lizzie Borden
Tuesday 27 April 2010
7pm at Biograf Spegeln, Malmö
Tickets: 50 SEK

In conjuction with the exhibition Breaking Point: Kathryn Bigelow’s Life in Art Signal and IFEMA – International Female Film Festival Malmö organise a film screening of Lizzie Borden’s film Born in Flames (1983), where Kathryn Bigelow plays one of the parts. Ingela Brovik, film critic, will introduce the film.

“1983′s Born in Flames shows Lizzie Borden in full glory, a feminist filmmaker bursting with ideas and vision. The setting is the future, New York City 10 years after the Social Democratic War of Liberation. Technically, that makes Born in Flames science fiction. But the future depicted here is not one of laser guns and spacesuits. Borden’s American future looks remarkably like our present. Rape, day care, and discrimination are still unresolved issues in this new society. With sexual oppression the norm, women in this post-revolutionary world are still faced with the strategic decision of how to effect a social structure that is responsive to their needs and goals. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Born in Flames is a complex interweaving of characters, music, images, voices, editing, conflicts, and humor. It combines techniques of deconstructionist cinema and conventional narrative filmmaking and throws them together at a brisk pace that propels it all.” Marjorie Baumgarten