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Losing ground /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: MileBD00147 | Milestone Film & VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Milestone cinemathequePublisher: [Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2016]Distributor: [United States] : Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories. Edition: 2-disc deluxe editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781933920757
1933920750

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Genre/Form:

Production credits:

Cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins; music, Michael D. Minard; executive producers, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins.

Cast: Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Norberto Kerner.Summary: Losing Ground tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand "ecstasy" just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy. Celebrating a recent museum sale, Victor decides to rent a country house where he can return to more realism after years working as an abstract expressionist. Away from the city, the couple's summer idyll becomes complicated by Sara's research and by Victor's involvement with a young model. When one of her students casts Sara as the woman scorned in a film version of the song "Frankie and Johnny," she experiences a painful emotional awakening. One of the first fictional features by an African-American woman.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00488 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050315078

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.

Special features: commentary track by professors LaMonda Horton Stallings and Terri Francis; 2015 theatrical trailer; The Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy (1980, 50 min.), Kathleen Collins and Ronald K. Gray's first film; video interviews with Ronald K. Gray (46:30), Seret Scott (40:17), Nina Lorez Collins (26:24); an interview with Kathleen Collins by Phyllis R. Klotman (1982, 22 min.); Transmagnifican dambamuality (1976, 7 min., black and white), Ronald K. Gray's celebrated "lost" student film.

Blu-ray disc; mono.

English dialogue. Closed-captioned in English.

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