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BORN IN FLAMES! + Intro by Director Lizzie Borden!
Fri, May 01
|Epsilon Spires
CELEBRATE MAY DAY with a thrilling and timely "sci-fi" allegory of rebellion- radical, visionary and startlingly urgent! A diverse coalition of women – across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference – unite to challenge a government bent on repression.
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Time & Location
May 01, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Born in Flames (1983), 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 a New York of the near-future, ten years after a successful socialist revolution, the oppression of women still lives on. Black Lesbian construction worker Adelaide Norris, radio broadcaster Honey, and a gang of bike-riding dyke vigilantes team up to fight the social unrest rocking the streets. Agitprop with a sense of humor, an energetic musical score, non-professional actors, inspired improvisation, and a mixed media assemblage of newspapers, TV reports, radio, and surveillance footage, BORN IN FLAMES is a landmark of early 1980s American independent cinema. Shot guerrilla-style on the streets of pre-gentrified New York, on a $40,000 budget, over five years, the film is a fierce DIY manifesto and unforgettable entry in the canon of science fiction genre films. It remains a…
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