Collections/April 2024

Lizzie Borden’s Feminist Underground

Revolutionary in both content and form, the films of Lizzie Borden testify to the potential of a politically committed cinema to fight back against prevailing representations of women on-screen. Her first three features—the long-unavailable experimental documentary Regrouping , the dystopian sci-fi provocation Born in Flames , and the radically nonjudgmental portrait of a brothel Working Girls —explore female collectivity across lines of race, class, and sexuality in ways that still feel ahead of their time.

3 films