Film
Losing Ground + Four Women
- 7PM
Post-screening Q&A with writer Nina Lorez Collins (daughter of Kathleen Collins)
Dir. Kathleen Collins
With Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones
1982, 86min, DCP
Kathleen Collins’ wonderfully smart, complex exploration of relationships and sexuality—one of the first from the perspective of a black female director—centers on a cerebral philosophy professor (Scott) and her free-spirited artist husband (Gunn) as they get in touch with their inner desires on a summer idyll in upstate New York. The effortlessly breezy style belies a nuanced understanding of the ways in which gender, race, and class shape our relationships.
Dir. Julie Dash
1975, 7min
A dance film set to the music of Nina Simone; her breakthrough work.
16mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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One of the godmothers of intersectional feminism speaks about her extraordinary life.