Monday, February 27, 2023 7pm to 9pm
Monday, February 27, 2023 7pm to 9pm
About this Event
24 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/losing-ground-2023-02Join the Harvard Film Archive for a screening of Losing Ground followed by a conversation with Seret Scott.
Seret Scott stars as Sara Rogers, a professor of philosophy researching the philosophical and religious meaning of the “ecstatic experience.” Her husband Victor—played by legendary writer/actor/director Bill Gunn—is an artist who rents a house in the country to celebrate his sale of a painting to a museum, but their relationship is tested by both Victor’s growing involvement with a young woman who models for him and Sara’s decision to return to the city to accept the invitation of one of her students to act in his film. Director Kathleen Collins drew on her own life story and identity—as an internationally known playwright, a voting rights activist and professor of film—to present the life and marriage of a Black couple, in its ordinariness and its complexity, in itself a political statement at the time.