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Losing Ground is a semiautobiographical 1982 American drama film written and directed by Kathleen Collins, and starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones. It is the first feature-length drama directed by an African-American woman since the 1920s and won First Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.
Losing Ground: Directed by Kathleen Collins. With Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Billie Allen. Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
- (885)
- Comedy, Drama
- Kathleen Collins
- 1982-06
A philosophy professor (Seret Scott) prides herself on being liberal but is jealous of her artist husband's (Bill Gunn) gorgeous model (Maritza Rivera).
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- William Gunn
- Kathleen Collins
- Comedy, Drama
A film is made. The first feature-length drama directed by a black American woman since the 1920s could've been a watershed moment, instead it is under seen and overlooked. Six years after making it, writer-director (and poet, playwright, civil rights activist, educator) Kathleen Collins would die in her forties, too young, leaving us this one ...
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- Milestone Film & Video
- Kathleen Collins
Apr 15, 2016 · Barely released in 1982 and all but unseen for over three decades, Kathleen Collins’s “Losing Ground” is a lively movie — as well as a ghostly one. Ms. Collins and her two male leads, Bill ...
Finding her artist husband away from their upstate NY summer studio, professor Sara (Seret Scott) fends off a student film-maker, then locates Victor (Bill Gunn) who has, it turns out, been painting a Puerto Rican model (Maritza Rivera), in director Kathleen Collins’ Losing Ground, 1982.
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A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, 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. — Leslye Allen (L. J. Allen-2)
