Greetings! Tonight (Mon. 11/25) is the final screening of* Lizzie Borden's WORKING GIRLS (1986)* at Spectacle (124 S. 3rd St., Brooklyn). The screening starts at 10 PM and is $5. We have been very excited to present this film a few times this month, and hope you are able to make it tonight!
Independent filmmaker Lizzie Borden, director of the underground feminist classic BORN IN FLAMES (1983), directed her next feature WORKING GIRLS in 1986. WORKING GIRLS is a fictional film following three prostitutes working in a Manhattan brothel through one long day at work. *In this culture one hears constantly about the sacrifice you have to make for doing prostitution. I’ve been attacked by everyone: by feminists who say, ‘You’re soft-peddling prostitution; prostitution is wrong’; and by spiritual women who say you can’t have all these sexual encounters without doing damage to your soul. But nobody criticizes the forty-hour workweek. Nobody criticizes the fact that for the most part people are trained into positive thinking about jobs that don’t make use of half their talents. There are bad things about prostitution, but they’re not the ones you see in the movies.* - LB Full description & trailer at http://www.spectacletheater.com/working-girls/ . Recommended reading: “Interview with Lizzie Borden.” Author(s): Scott MacDonald and Lizzie Borden. Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, The Problematics of Heterosexuality (Summer, 1989), pp. 327-245. Available in *A Critical Cinema 2*. Spectacle is a community screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, established and staffed entirely by volunteers. Our programming encompasses overlooked works, offbeat gems, contemporary art, political polemics, live performance and more. Shows are $5 unless noted as free. Best wishes, Katie Bradshaw -- *KATIE BRADSHAW* *SPECTACLE <http://www.spectacletheater.com>/ Programmer / A community screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn*
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