Wed, Oct 7 / 7 pm
Directed by Kathleen Collins
1982, USA, 86 min
** We apologize due to unforseen circumstances there will not be a musical performance tonight **
Funny, brilliant and personal, Losing Ground is one of the very first fictional features by an African-American woman, Kathleen Collins, who passed away in 1988 four years after completing the film. The film should have ranked high in the canon of indie cinema but the early 1980s was not an easy time for women or independent filmmakers and the film was never released theatrically. Twenty-five years later the filmmaker’s daughter Nina Collins rescued the original negative and created a beautiful new digital master.
A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on an almost unbelievable journey to find “ecstasy”, her husband is forced to see her in a different light.
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