| Description |
2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
Milestone cinematheque.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Cast |
Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Norberto Kerner. |
| Credits |
Cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins; music, Michael D. Minard; executive producers, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982; never theatrically released. |
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Produced with grants from the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Special featureson disc 1: commentary track by professors LaMonda Horton-Stallings and Terri Francis; 2015 theatrical trailer. Special features on disc 2: 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. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
disc 1. Losing ground -- disc 2. The Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy. |
| Subject |
Spouses -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Marital conflict -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Self-realization -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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College teachers -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Painters -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Melodramas (Motion pictures)
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988, film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
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Charles, Eleanor, film producer.
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Scott, Seret, actor.
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Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989, actor.
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Jones, Duane, actor.
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Rivera, Maritza, actor.
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Allen, Billie, actor.
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Bolling, Gary, actor.
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Kerner, Norberto, 1929-1999, actor.
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Minard, Michael D., composer (expression)
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Gray, Ronald K., director of photography, editor of moving image work.
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Losing Ground Productions, production company.
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Milestone Film & Video, publisher, conservationist.
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Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm), film distributor.
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| Added Title |
Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy.
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Transmagnifican dambamuality.
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| ISBN |
9781933920740 |
| Standard No. |
784148014746 |
| Music No. |
Mile00147 Milestone Film & Video |
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