possible. If I am able to make Rialto in ten years – or twenty – I hope it will still be relevant. I don't need to make a lot of films, I just need to believe in the ones I make. I would prefer to remain silent in the sense of the Susan Sontag essay ("The Aesthetics of Silence") until I am able to make something I believe in. And the issues I believe in – social issues, feminist issues, radical issues – are difficult to finance, even independently." In 2021, Borden was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Personal life Borden has stated she is bisexual. Filmography Film Regrouping (1976) Born in Flames (1983) Working Girls (1986) Inside Out (1991) Love Crimes (1992) Erotique (1994) Television Monsters (1989) Silk Stalkings (1996) Red Shoe Diaries (1996) Awards and nominations See also List of female film and television directors List of LGBT-related films directed by women References Further reading Adams, Sam. "Kathleen Hanna on the Film that's Inspired Her for Decades." The Dissolve. December 3, 2013. Baise, Greg. "Lizzie Borden talks about her scrappy, feminist magnum opus, 'Born in Flames'." Detroit Metro Times. March 1, 2017. Brody, Richard. "The Political Science Fiction of 'Born in Flames'." The New Yorker. February 19, 2016. Filetti, Jean S. "From Lizzie Borden to Lorena Bobbitt: Violent Women and Gendered Justice". Journal of American Studies. 35 (3): 471–484. Fusco, Coco. 1986. "Working girls: an interview with Lizzie Bordon". Afterimage. 14: 6–7. Jaehne, Karen. 1987. "Hooker". Film Comment. 23: 25–32. MacDonald, Scott. 1989. "Interview with Lizzie Borden". Feminist Studies. 15: Nastasi, Alison. "'Choice is Paramount': Filmmaker Lizzie Borden on the Radical Feminism of 'Born in Flames'." Flavorwise. February 18, 2016. Sussler, Betsy. "Lizzie Borden." BOMB Magazine. October 1, 1983. Willse, Craig, and Dean Spade. "We are Born in Flames." Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 23.1 (2013): 1–5. Lassinaro, Kaisa. "Born in Flames." Occasional Papers, 2011. External links Lizzie Borden on glbtq.com Occasional Papers 1950s births Living people American film editors American film producers American women film directors American women film editors American women film producers American women screenwriters Feminist filmmakers LGBT film directors Film directors from Michigan LGBT people from Michigan Writers from Detroit Year of birth uncertain 21st-century American women