b-seen Cinema
Lizzie Borden, MACBA
Avant-garde filmmaker
MACBA, Barcelona's Museum of Contemporary Art, presents a three-day film festival from Feb. 16-18, where the work of underground directors and filmmakers will be shown. Starting at 7 p.m., Pablo Martínez, Head of MACBA Programming, will present films from self-taught filmmaker and feminist, Lizzie Borden, whose deals with controversies around patriarchal societies, the female body and sex in a non-voyeuristic way. Borden will lead a discussion during two of those three days, along with author and producer Gloria Vilches, CINEMATEK curator Céline Brouwez and artist and video-maker Lucía Egaña
Borden, a Detroit filmmaker, produced a series of films between 1976 and 1986 within the New York intellectual and artistic milieu, around the time where post-punk music and feminist political actions were taking place. Borden's first film, Regrouping (1976), is an experimental documentary that portrays the way in which women live with one another, specifically four young female artists who paint an alternative portrait of the art world.
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Born in flames, Lizzie Borden (1983) Courtesy of Lizzie Borden and Anthology Film Archives
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Regrouping (1976) Courtesy of Lizzie Borden and Anthology Film Archives
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Working Girls (1987) Courtesy of Lizzie Borden and Anthology Film Archives
Born in Flames (1983), Borden's second film, steps into the realm of a patriarchal society and critiques the social promise of equality for minorities and women. Working Girls (1986) breaks traditional boundaries where a woman's body and sex are seen in a voyeuristic manner, where instead she presents three middle-class Manhattan women who practice prostitution.
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Regrouping (1976) Courtesy of Lizzie Borden and Anthology Film Archives
- From 17 February to 19 February
- MACBA
- Plaça de Joan Coromines, 08001
- www.macba.cat
- MACBA
- Plaça de Joan Coromines,
- 08001 Barcelona
- Tel: + 34 93 481 33 68
- www.macba.cat