Kathleen Collins (1942-1988) was a prolific author, professor, scholar, and filmmaker. Her sensitive and insightful film Losing Ground, about the strained marriage between a professor and her painter husband, was one of the first narrative feature films directed by a Black woman to be released in the U.S.
Kathleen Collins
Jersey City, New Jersey
Website
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Films
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Losing Ground
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(1982)
Sara, a college professor, and her husband, a painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
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The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy
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(1980)
The lives of three young Puerto Rican men are watched over by their father's ghost.