Name/TitleBorn In Flames
MakerLassinaro, Kaisa
Maker RoleTranscription and Layout
MakerBorden, Lizzie
Maker RoleFilm-maker
About this objectPaperback publication: a graphic transcript by Kaisa Lassinaro of 'Born In Flames', a 1983 film by intersectional feminist film-maker Lizzie Borden. The blurb on the back of the publication states, "Born in Flames poses the question of whether oppression against women will be eliminated under any kind of social system. ... It is a fantasy presenting a group of women who, confronted with the very 'ordinary' oppression women have been experiencing for decades, refuse to take it any longer and become armed fighters against the government."
Includes an A4 insert headed 'Lizzie Borden on Born In Flames' (in conversation with Kaisa Lassinaro, Januarry 2011).
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 296 x W: 210 x D: 5 mm
Date Made2015
Period1980s & 2010s
PublisherOccasional Papers
Publication Date2015
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_Flames:
Born in Flames is a 1983 American utopian/dystopian docufiction drama film directed, produced and co-written by radical intersectional feminist Lizzie Borden. The film explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternate socialist democratic United States. The title comes from the Red Krayola song "Born in Flames", which appears in the film and was written by Mayo Thompson, a member of the conceptual artists' group Art & Language [continues].
https://kaisalassinaro.net/index.php/duunit/about-kl:
Kaisa Lassinaro is a graphic designer/ PhD researcher/ occasional writer based in Helsinki FI: "I am currently pursuing a PhD research focussed on aesthetics of agency and political imagination: How is the political shared in public? perhaps activating the public? How does this take place in performance, protest, and through (feminist & queer) archives? The research considers the affects and desires that form collective demands and the way these materialise through the aesthetic." This site is a miscellaneous archive in alphabetical order featuring design, editing and writing from 2002 onwards.
https://occasionalpapers.org:
Occasional Papers is a non-profit publisher of affordable books devoted to the histories of architecture, art, design, film and literature. Founded in 2008 by Sara De Bondt and Antony Hudek.
Subject and Association KeywordsFilm-making
Subject and Association KeywordsFeminism, feminist movement
Subject and Association Keywords(anti) racism
Subject and Association Keywordssocial class
Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ+
Subject and Association KeywordsSocialism
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePublication
ISBN/ISSN978-0-9562605-9-8
Object numberGWL-2016-10
Spine LabelBORN IN FLAMES
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved