At the time of her death from cancer in 1988, Kathleen Collins was just 46 years old, but she was already an internationally renowned playwright, a popular professor (at New York’s City College) and a successful independent filmmaker. Her second film, Losing Ground, tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives.
Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand “ecstasy” just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthy exploration of joy. One of the very first fictional features by an African-American woman, Losing Ground remains a stunning and powerful work of art. Accomplished actors Seret Scott (who appeared in Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby and Ntozake Shange’s play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf), Bill Gunn (Ganja and Hess) and Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead) star.
This films will be screened with descriptive subtitles (also know as closed captions) and there will be live captions for the introduction. To book a wheelchair space (spaces are limited) or for any other access requests please call the GFT box office on 0141 332 6535 and leave a message or email us at access@glasgowfilm.org.
Ticket £6.90
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