Born in Flames

Movie
German title	Born in Flames
Original title	Born in Flames
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1983
length	80 minutes
Rod
Director	Lizzie Borden
script	Ed Bowes
production	Lizzie Borden
music	Ibis
camera	Ed Bowes Al Santana
cut	Lizzie Borden
occupation
Honey : Honey Adele Bertei : Isabel Jean Satterfield : Adelaide Norris Florynce Kennedy : Zella (Flo Kennedy) Becky Johnston : Newspaper Editor Pat Murphy : Newspaper Editor Kathryn Bigelow : Newspaper Editor Hillary Hurst : Leader of the Hillary Hurst Women's Army Sheila McLaughlin : Another leader Marty Pottenger : Another leader Bell Chevigny : talk show host Joel Kovel : talk show guest Ron Vawter : FBI agent John Coplans : Chief John Rudolph : TV newscaster Warner Schreiner : TV Newsreader Valerie Smaldone : TV news anchor

Born in Flames is a pseudo-documentary feminist science fiction film directed by Lizzie Borden in 1983, set in an alternative-worldly social democratic USA . The title comes from the song Born in Flames , written by a member of the Art & Language group , Mayo Thompson from the rock band Red Krayola .

content

Ten years after the victory of the revolution and the seizure of power by the Social Democratic Party, the women's army appears in public in New York . Several women lose their jobs as a result. In the vicinity of two small feminist radio stations , they and their allies fight against racism , patriarchal behavior and for their social rights. The activist Adelaide Norris helps revolutionary women from the Western Sahara in obtaining weapons and arrested when returning to the airport. She dies in the cell. The government claims that it committed suicide. Your comrades-in-arms from the women's army want to prove that it was murder. They occupy a government radio station and force the technicians at gunpoint to interrupt a speech by the president introducing a law to pay women for housework and send a political statement instead. After arson attacks by unknown perpetrators against the two feminist radio stations, they broadcast together from the underground . The film ends with a bomb attack on the antenna on the roof of the World Trade Center .

criticism

"Thematically unusual, imaginative and fluid underground agitation, which, however, largely offers nothing more than catchphrases and phrases and ends with a questionable call to counter violence."

- Lexicon of international film

particularities

Some feminists who were active at the time of the making play in the film, including the later director and Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow . Actor Eric Bogosian makes his debut as a technician who is forced at gunpoint to play a videotape. Red Krayola's theme song Born in Flames was released as a single back in 1981. The film was shown in the Forum program at the 1983 Berlinale . At the women's film festival in Créteil , the film won the Grand Prix in 1983.

Web links

• Born in Flames in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Greg Baise: Lizzie Borden talks about her scrappy, feminist magnum opus, 'Born in Flames'. Retrieved August 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Born in Flames. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .