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Catch a key work in Black film history, Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground, paired with an exciting experimental short by director and Cinema Revival guest Ja’Tovia Gary.
One of the first feature films written and directed by an African American woman, Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground is a portrait of a marriage at a crossroads, between a philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and a painter (Bill Gunn, director of Ganja & Hess). The film was named to the Library of Congress’s prestigious National Film Registry in December. (86 mins., video)
The feature is preceded by Ja’Tovia Gary’s An Ecstatic Experience—in the artist’s words, “a meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.” The experimental short is an inspired blend of animated scratches and markings over vintage and contemporary footage that includes a performance by actress/activist Ruby Dee and a Black Lives Matter protest. (6:11 mins., video)
Gary joins us for a conversation Black Film Center/Archive Director Dr. Terri Francis as part of Cinema Revival. Read more.
*Please note: this presentation is limited to the first 400 viewers.
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Losing Ground, image courtesy of Milestone Films.
An Ecstatic Experience, image courtesy of Ja’Tovia Gary.
Losing Ground is screened in a 2K digital transfer from 16mm source material by DuArt. Thank you to Milestone Films for its cooperation.
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Losing Ground
