Friday, September 15, 6:00 p.m. | Kathleen Collins’s beloved feature LOSING GROUND is a deeply personal, arts-saturated film about a philosophy professor (Seret Scott) whose quest for ecstatic experience leads her to star in a student film. An homage to Collins by one of her students, UNSPOKEN CONVERSATION tells the story of a woman who returns to college to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker. Joyous, poignant, and made on micro budgets, these two films reflect on gendered expectations, marriages between artists, and the creative potential of Black women.

Program:

LOSING GROUND (1982, dir. Kathleen Collins, 86 min. In English / Format: 35mm / Restored by the Yale Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.)
UNSPOKEN CONVERSATION (1987, dir. Iman Hameen, 24 min., in English / Format: Digital)

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu