< strong>Directed by Kathleen Collins\, 1982\, 86 minutes
\nPresented in collaboration with the Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival
\nComic drama Losing Ground centers on the experiences of Sara (Seret Scott)\, a university professor whose artist husband Victor (Bill Gunn) rents a country house for a month to ce lebrate a recent museum sale. The couple’s summer idyll becomes complicat ed as Sara struggles to research the philosophical and religious meaning of ecstatic experience… and to discover it for herself.
\nAt the ti me of her death in 1988\, Kathleen Collins was just 46 years old but was already a seasoned activist who had traveled to the Congo and worked as c ivil rights organizer in the South\, an internationally renowned playwrig ht\, an esteemed professor at New York’s City College\, and a fiercely in dependent filmmaker. Losing Ground is Collins’s second film\, a stunning work studied and revered by academics\, but largely unseen by th e public.
\ntt stern-enzi\, Artistic Director of the Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival\, joins us and will introduce the film. In a ddition to his role at the Film Festival\, stern-enzi is a film critic fo r outlets including CityBeat and Fox19 and member of the Critics Choice A ssociation\, and is a board member-at-large of the Film Festival Alliance .
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FREE and open to the public. Reservations not require d. Seating is limited and is first come\, first served.
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