Film
Born in Flames
Tue, Oct 9, 2012
- 9:15PM
LOCATION:
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Rose Cinemas
RUN TIME: 90min
RATED: NR
FORMAT: 16mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $12
BAM CINEMA CLUB MEMBERS: $7
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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October 2012
Tuesday October 09, 2012
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2012
series Born in Flames: New Queer Cinema
Directed by Lizzie Borden | 1983
With Flo Kennedy, Kathryn Bigelow, Ron Vawter
“Anyone outside its target demographic of Trotskyite black lesbian separatists should avoid [Born in Flames] at all costs.”
—The Onion
Cut to the beat of the Red Krayola, Lizzie Borden’s no wave, lo-fi, sci-fi polemic announced a new type of queer cinema nearly a decade before the New Queer Cinema movement coalesced in the early 90s. Ten years after a socialist revolution, diverse feminist factions come together to fight for their rights in a society that calls itself a utopia while quietly maintaining the status quo. Shot in the rough and tumble New York of the 80s, Born in Flames captures an aesthetically and politically radical downtown scene.
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