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About Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins directed Losing Ground, a sharp portrait of Sara, a Black philosophy professor whose artist husband films her discomfort on summer break. Shot independently in 1982, the film mixes lecture wit with affair tension.
Collins also wrote stories and made shorts while teaching film. Watching the feature in full shows her direct address on race and marriage without softening edges. The film stands alone, so no series order exists beyond giving its classroom start the same weight as its lakeside end. Later restorations about Collins can be watched after the feature.
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Watch Losing Ground start to finish. The film moves from city classrooms to country rentals in fixed order, so skipping ahead hides how intellectual pride cracks. There is no sequel in continuity. New viewers should expect a talky 1980s pace that rewards listening more than plot turns. Stay through the lakeside close without pausing, since the final exchange lands harder when earlier talks are fresh.
