Art & Activism: Filmmaker Lizzie Borden
March 28, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Join us for an intimate conversation about art and activism with filmmaker Lizzie Borden, facilitated by GWS Assistant Professor Freda Fair and featuring GWS undergraduate students Baeyoung Yoo and Parisa Gharavi, PhD student in History and GWS graduate student concentrator Liliana Macias, and students from CADA.
Then, join us at the the Gene Siskel Film Center for screenings and discussions of her iconic films.
Lizzie Borden is a writer, director, editor, and script consultant. Her 1983 film Born in Flames, named one of “The 50 Most Important Independent Films” by Filmmaker Magazine, has been shown at countless festivals and theaters around the world. It has been taught and written about extensively since its 1983 premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2016, when the film was restored by Anthology Film Archives, New Yorker critic Richard Brody called it “a feminist masterpiece.” Borden also wrote, directed, and produced the controversial independent fiction film Working Girls, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight, won a US Dramatic Special Jury Recognition at the Sundance Film Festival, and was restored by the Criterion Collection in 2021. Borden's long-unseen 1976 film Regrouping was restored by Anthology Film Archives in 2023.
Presented by Gender and Women's Studies; College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts; and the Women's Leadership and Resource Center.
Date posted
Mar 26, 2024
Date updated
Mar 26, 2024