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Losing ground
Title
Losing ground / executive producers, Kathleen Collins, Ronald K. Gray ; producer, Eleanor Charles ; written by Kathleen Collins ; direction, Kathleen Collins ; Losing Ground Productions.
Publication
[United States] : Losing Ground Productions, [1982]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (85 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Streaming video file.
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.
Cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray ; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins ; music, Michael D. Minard ; editing, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins.
Description based on film reel record and IMDb entry (viewed October 20, 2021).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
An African American female philosophy professor embarks on a journey of self-discovery, greatly changing her relationship with her artist husband. Her rational personality acts as a buffer to her husband's more instinctual, artistic approach to life. Feeling limited by this too intellectual definition of herself, Sara goes in search of ecstasy, and winds up on a student movie set playing the vengeful vamp Frankie from the legendary "Frankie and Johnnie" song of Black mythology.
Variant and related titles
Kino Lorber collection.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 20, 2021
Credits
Cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray ; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins ; music, Michael D. Minard ; editing, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins.
Cast
Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Norberto Kerner, Maritza Rivera.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama
Fiction films
Internet videos
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Losing Ground Productions, production company.
American Film Institute, sponsoring corporate body.
National Endowment for the Arts, sponsoring corporate body.
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