ABSTRACT
This chapter includes an interview with filmmaker Lizzie Borden originally published in The Independent Film & Video Monthly in 1983, along with an original interview with Borden from 2018 and a comprehensive biography. An unabashed feminist and a fiercely independent artist, filmmaker Lizzie Borden explains in an interview the goals, casting process, and production and editing strategies she brought to her freewheeling and landmark film, Born in Flames (1983), and the somewhat different process she used on her next feature, Working Girls (1986). Both films won several awards and much critical acclaim for their unorthodox stories and styles. Borden also describes her experience of traveling with the recently restored Born in Flames, and the varied ways in which national and international audiences, especially younger viewers, have responded to it. Borden’s interview addresses her enduring fascination with using film to explore women’s perspectives and lives from a women’s point of view, while her biography provides a chronicle of her life in film.
