Born in Flames
A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden’s explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a social-democratic utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals—led by Black, lesbian, and working-class women—join forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, Born in Flames is a shock wave of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration—preserved by Anthology Film Archives, with restoration funding from the Golden Globe Foundation and The Film Foundation, and supervised and approved by director Lizzie Borden—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Introduction by Borden
- New audio commentary featuring Borden; cast members Adele Bertei, Hillary Hurst, Sheila McLaughlin, Pat Murphy, Marty Pottenger, and Jeanne Satterfield; and camerapeople DeeDee Halleck and Chris Hegedus
- Regrouping (1976), Borden’s directorial debut, an experimental documentary about a New York City women’s group
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by film scholar Yasmina Price and author So Mayer
New cover by Jillian Adel
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration—preserved by Anthology Film Archives, with restoration funding from the Golden Globe Foundation and The Film Foundation, and supervised and approved by director Lizzie Borden—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Introduction by Borden
- New audio commentary featuring Borden; cast members Adele Bertei, Hillary Hurst, Sheila McLaughlin, Pat Murphy, Marty Pottenger, and Jeanne Satterfield; and camerapeople DeeDee Halleck and Chris Hegedus
- Regrouping (1976), Borden’s directorial debut, an experimental documentary about a New York City women’s group
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by film scholar Yasmina Price and author So Mayer
New cover by Jillian Adel
Cast
- Becky Johnston
- Newspaper editor
- Honey
- Honey, host of Phoenix Radio
- Adele Bertei
- Isabel, host of Radio Ragazza
- Jeanne Satterfield
- Adelaide Norris
- Flo Kennedy
- Zella Wylie
- Pat Murphy
- Newspaper editor
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Newspaper editor
- Hillary Hurst
- Leader of Women’s Army
- Sheila McLaughlin
- Other leaders
- Marty Pottenger
- Lynn Jones
- Ron Vawter
- FBI agent
- John Coplans
- Chief
Credits
- Director
- Lizzie Borden
- Produced by
- Lizzie Borden
- Edited by
- Lizzie Borden
- Story and editing consultant
- Ed Bowes
- Camera
- Ed Bowes
- Camera
- Al Santana
- Additional camera
- Chris Hegedus
- Additional camera
- Jacki Ochs
- Additional camera
- Gary Hill
- Additional camera
- Michael Oblowitz
- Additional camera
- Becky Johnston
- Additional camera
- Peter Hutton
- Additional camera
- Lizzie Borden
- Additional camera
- Johanna Heer
- Additional camera
- Sheila McLaughlin
- Additional camera
- Greta Schiller
- Video camera
- Phil O’Reilly
- Video camera
- Tom Bowes
- Video camera
- Kirsten Bates
- Video camera
- Jack Walworth
- Video camera
- Richard Tiernan
- Video camera
- DeeDee Halleck
- Video of women in desert
- Phil O’Reilly
- Video graphics
- Jo Bonney
- Sound
- Tom Crawford
- Sound
- Rachel Reichman
- Sound
- Rachel Field
- Sound
- Dan Edelman
- Music by
- The Bloods
- Music by
- The Red Krayola
- Music by
- Ibis
- Special effects
- Hisao Taya
- Graphics
- Dirk Zimmer
- Special-effects camera
- Bob Lyss
A scene from Born in Flames
