Feb 27
DEI Event
Losing Ground Film Screening
Losing Ground Film Screening & Talk with Seret Scott
Monday, February 27, 2023
3:00pm, Conversation with actor Seret Scott, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library
7:00pm, Film screening, Carpenter Center
Link for more information and to register for the event
One of the first narrative feature films directed by a Black woman, Kathleen Collins’ Losing Ground never received a commercial release, and after its premiere in 1982 and a subsequent screening at MoMA in January 1983, it showed only sporadically over the years. Collins died in 1988 at the age of forty-six, having made just this miraculous film and a short. Losing Ground remains an exquisite anomaly in feature filmmaking: a window into the realities and fantasies of an intellectual Black woman and her artist husband. To this day, there are no comparable characters to these utterly unique beings on screen.