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Losing ground

Title
Losing ground / directed by Kathleen Collins.
Publication
  • [Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2016]
  • [United States] : Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories.

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Additional Authors
  • Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988
  • Charles, Eleanor
  • Scott, Seret
  • Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989
  • Jones, Duane
  • Rivera, Maritza
  • Allen, Billie
  • Bolling, Gary
  • Kerner, Norberto, 1929-1999
  • Gray, Ronald K.
  • Losing Ground Productions, production company.
  • Milestone Film & Video, publisher.
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm), distributor.
Description
2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
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 earthly exploration of joy. Celebrating a recent museum sale, Victor decides to rent a country house where he can return to more realism after years working as an abstract expressionist. Away from the city, the couple's summer idyll becomes complicated by Sara's research and by Victor's involvement with a young model. When one of her students casts Sara as the woman scorned in a film version of the song "Frankie and Johnny," she experiences a painful emotional awakening. One of the first fictional features by an African-American woman.
Series Statement
The Milestone cinematheque
Uniform Title
Milestone cinematheque.
Alternative Title
  • Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy.
  • Transmagnifican dambamuality.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Melodramas (Motion pictures)
  • Feature films.
  • Fiction films.
  • Drama.
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982; never theatrically released.
  • Produced with grants from the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • Special features: commentary track by professors LaMonda Horton Stallings and Terri Francis; 2015 theatrical trailer; The Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy (1980, 50 min.), Kathleen Collins and Ronald K. Gray's first film; video interviews with Ronald K. Gray (46:30), Seret Scott (40:17), Nina Lorez Collins (26:24); an interview with Kathleen Collins by Phyllis R. Klotman (1982, 22 min.); Transmagnifican dambamuality (1976, 7 min., black and white), Ronald K. Gray's celebrated "lost" student film.
Credits (note)
  • Written by Kathleen Collins ; producer, Eleanor Charles ; executive producers, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins ; cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray ; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins; music, Michael D. Minard ; a Milestone Film release ; Losing Ground Productions.
Performer (note)
  • Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Norberto Kerner.
System Details (note)
  • Blu-ray disc; mono.
Language (note)
  • English dialogue. Closed-captioned in English.
Call Number
Sc BLURAY-6
ISBN
  • 9781933920757
  • 1933920750
LCCN
784148014753
OCLC
946083700
Title
Losing ground / directed by Kathleen Collins.
Publisher
[Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2016]
Distributor
[United States] : Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Edition
2-disc deluxe edition.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
Type of Carrier
videodisc
Digital File Characteristics
video file Blu-ray video
Series
The Milestone cinematheque
Milestone cinematheque.
System Details
Blu-ray disc; mono.
Cast
Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Norberto Kerner.
Credits
Written by Kathleen Collins ; producer, Eleanor Charles ; executive producers, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins ; cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray ; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins; music, Michael D. Minard ; a Milestone Film release ; Losing Ground Productions.
Language
English dialogue. Closed-captioned in English.
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Added Author
Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988, film director.
Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988, screenwriter.
Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988, editor of moving image work.
Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988, interviewee.
Charles, Eleanor, film producer.
Scott, Seret, actor.
Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989, actor.
Jones, Duane, actor.
Rivera, Maritza, actor.
Allen, Billie, actor.
Bolling, Gary, actor.
Kerner, Norberto, 1929-1999, actor.
Gray, Ronald K., director of photography, editor of moving image work.
Losing Ground Productions, production company.
Milestone Film & Video, publisher.
Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm), distributor.
Added Title
Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy.
Transmagnifican dambamuality.
Other Standard Identifier
784148014753
Publisher No.
MileBD00147 Milestone Film & Video
Research Call Number
Sc BLURAY-6
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