“How do we divest ourselves of the need to make ourselves extraordinary? Now the danger… is we must now be too good. If you’ve been the notion of sin incarnate and you’re now trying to correct that balance, what do you do? You make black people into saints. Neither one is true. Neither one is reality. Both are tracks to dehumanize you.” — Kathleen Collins, at Howard University
Kathleen Collins criminally underseen independent landmark LOSING GROUND (1982) has been resurrected and restored by Milestone Films, and returns to the big screen in Los Angeles in the UCLA Film and Television Archive program Working Girls—American Career Women on Screen.
Nina Collins—the daughter of the late filmmaker—will be on hand to discuss the film. The evening begins at 7:30 pm with the screening of DESK SET, the Tracy-Hepburn comedy.
LOSING GROUND (following DESK SET), Saturday, February 24, at 7:30 pm.
BILLY WILDER THEATER, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
Scenes from Losing Ground.
