Lizzie Borden (1)

Lizzie Borden Initially, her films were united by an "iconoclastic depiction of sex". "We are living in a very anti-sexual time; lack of sexual desire is epidemic," said Borden. "It's more than the fear of AIDS, it's more than the influence of the Republican culture of Reagan-Bush and Newt Gingrich. What I want to know is, why have we become so afraid of sex?" Her body of work also investigates race, class, power, capitalism, and the power money bestows—all from a female vantage point.

In 1976 she made a film titled Regrouping. Her next film, Born in Flames, was shot and edited over the course of five years and had a budget of $40,000. Set in New York, it explores the role media plays in culture. What began as a project about white feminist responses to an oppressive government evolved into a story about women of color, lesbians, and white women of various classes mobilizing into collective action, and concerned the racial, class, and political conflicts in a future United States socialist democracy. Borden's "naive" approach to film production can be seen in its gritty, pseudo-documentary style, which pieces together a "disjunctive collage of women's individual and collective work". Additionally, she used nonprofessional actors. Born in Flames premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won several awards. It was named one of "The Most Important 50 Independent Films" by Filmmaker magazine and has been the subject of extensive feminist analysis, including that of Teresa de Lauretis.

In 2016, Anthology Film Archives hosted a weeklong revival run of Born in Flames, featuring a new 35mm preservation print produced as part of a multi-year restoration project supported by the Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. To commemorate the re-release, The New Yorker remarked, "the free, ardent, spontaneous creativity of 'Born in Flames' emerges as an indispensable mode of radical change—one that many contemporary filmmakers with political intentions have yet to assimilate."

Borden's second film, Working Girls, depicting the lives of sex workers, maintains some of the stylistic and thematic features of her debut is more mainstream in its approach. The film was inspired by some of the women who participated in the making of Born in Flames, who coincidentally supported themselves through prostitution. Although Working Girls addresses the subject of prostitution in great detail, Borden prefers the film to be discussed as a narrative fiction film rather than as a documentary. The film portrays prostitution as an often tedious, sometimes depressing, occasionally interesting or funny job. The main character, Molly, claims to have a degree from Yale and is a lesbian in her private life.

Borden wrote, directed, and produced the film and it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Director's Fortnight, won Best Feature at the Sundance Film Festival and was sold and then distributed by Miramax Films. wiki

Director (9 credits)
1996 Medias de seda (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Pre-Judgement Day (1996)
1996 Red Shoe Diaries (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Juarez (1996)
1994 Erotique (segment "Let's Talk About Love")
1992 Crímenes de amor
1991 Inside Out (Video) (episode "Diaries, The", episode "Shrink Rap")
1989 Monsters (TV Series) (1 episode)
- La Strega (1989)
1986 Chicas de Nueva York
1983 Born in Flames
1976 Regrouping
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