A Conversation with Lizzie Borden

Published: Aug. 4, 2021, 5 a.m.

Lizzie Borden named herself after an ax murderer when she was a kid growing up in Detroit. In the 1980s she gained a reputation as a radical feminist filmmaker.\xa0Born in Flames\xa0is about an underground women\u2019s army.\xa0Working Girls\xa0takes place in a brothel and tells the story of middle class sex workers. Then Borden went to Hollywood to make a film for Harvey Weinstein that turned out to be a disaster. Now, Borden\u2019s early movies are making a comeback.\xa0 A restored version of\xa0Working Girls\xa0was recently re-released in theaters across the country. \u201cNow What?\u201d is produced with the help of Steve Zimmer, Fei Lu and Alex Wolfe.\xa0Audio production is by Nick Ciavatta