dir. Kathleen Collins
We’re kicking off our Black History Month series with Kathleen Collins’ LOSING GROUND, a monumental film from 1982.
An independent production in every sense of the word, Collins made this film while she was a professor at City University of New York. Using equipment from the school as well as recruiting students for acting roles, Collins was able to create a marital drama that feels so fresh it’s hard to believe it was made over 40 years ago! Starring Seret Scott as a philosophy professor who is creatively and emotionally feeling at odds with her husband, a painter played by Bill Gunn, LOSING GROUND explores the tension that arises when two different kinds of creative types try to make it in a world that does not want to make space for black intellectuals.
Like so many films by black innovators, LOSING GROUND went unseen for decades, and it’s found an audience in the years since Collins untimely death from cancer at age 46. We’re incredibly excited to share this film with you all! In an effort to make this series as accessible as we possibly can, all of the films in our Black History Month series will be free and open to the public.
We’ll be showing the short BY ANY MEANS, which was visually inspired by Collins film, before the feature. Please join us for this gem of 1980’s independent black filmmaking!
FREE | doors 7p / starts 7:30p | RSVP
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