Losing ground
(DVD)

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[Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2016].
Edition
2-disc deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Published
[Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2016].
Format
DVD
Edition
2-disc deluxe edition.
Language
English
UPC
784148014746

Notes

General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982; never theatrically released.
General Note
Produced with grants from the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production Credits
Cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins; music, Michael D. Minard; executive producers, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins.
Participants/Performers
Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Norberto Kerner.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD, mono.
Language
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Scott, S., Gunn, B., Jones, D., Rivera, M., Allen, B., Bolling, G., Kerner, N., & Gray, R. K. (2016). Losing ground (2-disc deluxe edition.). Milestone Film & Video.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Seret, Scott et al.. 2016. Losing Ground. Milestone Film & Video.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Seret, Scott et al.. Losing Ground Milestone Film & Video, 2016.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Scott, Seret,, et al. Losing Ground 2-disc deluxe edition., Milestone Film & Video, 2016.

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