Losing Ground
The From Below Microcinema will be showing Kathleen Collins’ Losing Ground (1982) on Tuesday, June 25th, at 8pm.
Here is the link to reserve a seat. Doors will be at 7:50 and we’re starting the movie at 8:10!
A tragically overlooked gem, Losing Ground explores the complex relationship between a philosophy professor, Sara, and her husband Victor, an up-and-coming painter. Sara embarks on two new projects, simultaneously researching experiences of religious ecstatic abandon while dipping her toes into acting for an independent film, while Victor begins to fall for Celia, the object of his own painterly studies. Losing Ground is a wonderful, subtle, and profound study of souls searching for creative lives full of vital truth and beauty. Directed by the brilliant Kathleen Collins, an award-winning short-story writer and playwright, Losing Ground is one of the very first narrative feature-length films directed by a Black woman. The film didn’t get a theatrical release and fell into obscurity until Collins’ daughter spearheaded a project to restore and re-release the film in 2015.
Special guests this week include Stefan’s parents, Paul and Debbie! We’ll also be raffling off a copy of Collins’ short stories, What Ever Happened to Interracial Love?to one lucky From Below attendee.