MFAH Film Restorations & Revivals: Losing Ground

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Restorations & Revivals film series. Enjoy these classics from world cinema on the big screen in Brown Auditorium Theater!

Losing Ground
Directed by Kathleen Collins
1982, USA, 86 minutes

A young philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn) are at personal and professional crossroads.When they leave New York City for a summer in the country, they experience a reawakening, both together and separately.

This 1982 film by Kathleen Collins is one of the first independent features written and directed by a black woman.

Twenty-five years after her death, Collins’s daughter, Nina, rescued the original negative and created a new digital master of her mother’s film. Losing Ground now looks and sounds as fresh, bracing, and complex as it did when it was first released.