LOSING GROUND (1982)

"A NEARLY LOST MASTERWORK... LOSING GROUND PLAYS LIKE A RECORD OF A LIFE REVEALED IN TIME."-RICHARD BRODY, THE NEW YORKER

Sara Rogers, a professor of philosophy, is writing a dissertation on the nature of “ecstatic” experience in art and religion. Her husband, Victor, is a painter of abstract canvases who finds his eye drawn to people and landscapes. When the couple rents a country house for the summer, the intellectual and emotional boundaries defining their world begin to shift, as Victor turns to painting realistic pictures featuring a local girl, while Sara agrees to act in a film made by one of her students.

Special Features:

• Audio Commentary track by Professors LaMonda Horton-Stallings and Terri Francis
• 2015 Theatrical Trailer
• The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980, 50 mins, Color) Kathleen Collins and Ronald Gray's first film
• Video Interviews with Ronald K. Gray (46:30), Seret Scott (40:17) and Nina Lorez Collins (26:24)
• An Interview with Kathleen Collins by Phyllis R. Klotman (1982, Color, 22 mins, Courtesy of Indiana University Black Film Archive)
• Transmagnifican Dambamuality (1976, 7 mins, B&W) Gray's celebrated lost student film