<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><b><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lizzie-borden-main/capsula">New podcast: American filmmaker and activist Lizzie Borden</a> </b>talks about her first
three films -"Re-grouping” (1976), "Born in Flames" (1983) i "Working
Girls" (1986)-, about inductive and deductive filmmaking</span>, about filming
without a script, about the importance of editing, about style, about
the use of documentary strategies in fiction films, about alternative
distribution as a form of activism, about the lack of women in the film
world and about her notion of television as the future of audiovisual
media.<br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lizzie-borden-main/capsula">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/lizzie-borden-main/capsula</a><br><br><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">The films by American filmmaker and activist Lizzie Borden</span></b> are like a
wake-up call urging us to think about the past, the present, and the
future of feminism through a particular understanding of the creative
process and cinematic language.<br><br>Following her dream of being a
painter, Borden studied art and came into contact with the American
conceptual art scene in the early seventies. As a result of clashes with
the prevailing discourse on abstract expressionism led by Clement
Greenberg, she drifted away from painting, although she maintained close
links to the art world through her work as a writer for 'Artforum' and
her friendships with some artists. Her discovery of Jean-Luc Godard’s
films and his way of mixing essay and narrative within a single artistic
expression was a turning point in Lizzie Borden’s career.<br><br>In
1976, armed with a 16 mm camera and surrounded by friends and
acquaintances – including Joan Jonas, Barbara Kruger and Kathryn Bigelow
– Borden shot her first film, entitled 'Regrouping'. Made in the
context of the second wave of feminism in the US, it reflects on the
reason for being and the living conditions of a group of women in a
man’s world. The film, which used an experimental and very beautiful
cinematic language, with audacious fades to white, abrupt editing, and
an expressive, unconventional use of sound, was literally kept in a
closet for forty years, before finally coming to light again recently.
Borden’s second film, 'Born in Flames' (1983) was framed within a more
radical discourse. It reflects on the situation of black
non-heterosexual women and on the nature of activism and violence as
revolution. In an exercise in speculative fiction that draws on
documentary strategies, Borden explores dystopias in an Afrofuturist
setting. The film, which Borden shot in stages over four years as she
managed to raise the financing, has become a cult work of feminist
activism. In her third film, 'Working Girls', made in 1986, Borden
turned to the problems of race, class and stereotypes in relation to sex
workers, from a demystified female point of view totally removed from
the voyeurism and prejudices with which prostitution is usually
portrayed.<br><br>SON[I]A talks to Lizzie Borden about inductive and
deductive filmmaking, about filming without a script, about the
importance of editing, about style, about the use of documentary
strategies in fiction films, about alternative distribution as a form of
activism, about the lack of women in the film world and about her
notion of television as the future of audiovisual media.<br><br><b>Timeline</b><br><b>03:59</b> All I ever wanted to do is to become a painter<br><b>05:01</b> Knowing too much about Art history destroyed painting for me<br><b>05:29</b> The women whose work I admired so much was not as valued as the titans I saw around me<br><b>07:40</b> Radicalised by the second wave of feminism<br><b>08:38</b> White middle class from Art School<br><b>09:26</b> Discussions and meetings in the Art world in the 60s<br><b>11:10</b> Godard: agitprop, essay and story <br><b>13:00</b> 'Regrouping' is not a documentary<br><b>16:50</b> 'Born in Flames': what is the nature of violence?<br><b>17:55</b> 'Working Girls' is a question about labour<br><b>20:20</b> A few reflections on the feminine gaze<br><b>25:10</b> Women in Lizzie Borden's films<br><b>29:10</b> Inductive and deductive film making<br><b>34:30</b> After 'Working Girls'<br><b>35:25</b> 'Born in Flames': still contemporary<br><b>48:20</b> 'Born in Flames' on YouTube<br><b>50:24</b> TV is the new medium and the series are the new novel<br><b>53:10</b> I don't make documentaries<br><br><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><br>+</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"> You may also be interested in this podcast --><b> RADIOACTIVITY #3. Lizzie Borden and "Born in Flames</b>"</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"></span><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/lizzie-borden-pirate-radio/capsula"> </a><br><br><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/lizzie-borden-pirate-radio/capsula">Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/lizzie-borden-pirate-radio/capsula</a><br><br>Pirate radio became one of the protagonists and main motifs of the
narrative thread of Lizzie Borden's 'Born in Flames'. In this short
excerpt, the cult and self-taught filmmaker Lizzie Borden shares the
various reasons that led her to take an interest in the phenomenon of
European free radio, and how it helped her to connect the various
agendas of this cult film.<br><br><br></font></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)">Enjoy!</span><br></font></span></div>