Described by the filmmaker as a comedy about a young woman who takes herself too seriously,\u00a0Losing Ground<\/a>\u00a0finds two married intellectuals\u2014a painter and a philosophy professor\u2014at a creative and romantic crossroads during a summer retreat in Upstate New York. While the film\u2019s lead, Sara (Seret Scott), is engrossed in her research on human ecstasy, her husband (played by\u00a0Ganja & Hess\u00a0<\/em>director Bill Gunn) seems to be finding it effortlessly in his art and with his female models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kathleen Collins\u2019 film marked the first feature-length drama from a Black woman in the United States since the 1920\u2019s, and despite success on the festival circuit,\u00a0Losing Ground<\/a>\u00a0was never distributed theatrically, all but vanishing after 1982. In 2015, Collins\u2019 daughter rescued the original negative and oversaw its restoration and rerelease, premiering at New York\u2019s Film Society of Lincoln Center. The New Yorker\u2019s Richard Brody spoke to the restoration, \u201chad it screened widely in its time, it would have marked film history.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tonight\u2019s screening opens with an intimate set from Josh Runnels\u2019\u00a0future soul<\/em>\u00a0group J.ARTiz and MO\u2019 Soul Collective. Runnels hosts the monthly live music and art series Soul Sessions COMO, supporting established and emerging local and national performers and artists, independent vendors, and Columbia\u2019s art and culture community. Between J.ARTiz and Soul Sessions, Runnels seeks to continue inspiring a larger movement of cultural art, Black liberation, and higher consciousness through Afrofuturistic inspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Black Independents Vol II<\/a>\u00a0continues through February with\u00a0The Inheritance<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Nationtime<\/a>. This Friday the Cannes-breakout and Best International Feature Film Oscar-nominee\u00a0The Worst Person in the World<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>opens. This genre-redefining Norwegian romantic comedy sits on nearly every top 10 list this year (in pleasant company with\u00a0Drive My Car<\/a>) and should be seen with someone you love, someone you used to love\u2026 or just blissfully alone in a crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forward,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings cinema friends, Tonight,\u00a0Black Independents Vol II\u2014our yearly survey of the varied waves of Black independent American cinema\u2014continues at the Cinema with Kathleen Collins\u2019\u00a0Losing Ground. Described by the filmmaker as a comedy about a young woman who takes herself too seriously,\u00a0Losing Ground\u00a0finds two married intellectuals\u2014a painter and a philosophy professor\u2014at a creative and romantic crossroads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,53],"tags":[162,158,163,164,165],"class_list":["post-10678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-word-from","category-news1","tag-bill-gunn","tag-black-independents","tag-josh-runnels","tag-kathleen-collins","tag-losing-ground"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10780,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions\/10780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/losingground-newsletter.jpg\")
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