Losing Ground @ 40: Panels and Reception

USC Visions and Voices

Day 2 of the 40th-anniversary celebration of the groundbreaking film, Losing Ground. Join us to explore the film and its legacy.

California African American Museum

“Losing Ground was not only ahead of its own time, but ours as well.” — Indie Wire<a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/losing-ground" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Losing Ground</a>, one of the first feature-length motion pictures directed by a Black American woman and a National Film Registry inductee, tells the story of a Black female philosophy professor and her abstract painter husband drifting apart as they experience separate creative evolutions. It won first prize at the Figueroa International Film Festival in Portugal in 1982 but didn’t receive an official release until it was restored in 2015, long after director Kathleen Collins died from breast cancer in 1988.“Losing Ground @ 40” is a two-day, multi-site program that brings together luminary Black women filmmakers, scholars, and curators to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the pathbreaking film, introduce new audiences to Collins’s innovative practice, and convene those long inspired by it.F﻿ollowing a film screening and talkback at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Losing Ground @ 40: Panels and Reception will focus on discussions that explore the film, its themes, making, and legacy. SCHEDULE:SATURDAY, JANUARY 28California African American Museum1­–2 p.m.: Roundtable 1—Philosophy and Ecstasy in Losing GroundFeaturing Georgetown professor and prolific author <a href="https://africanamericanstudies.georgetown.edu/people/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LaMonda Horton-Stallings</a> Georgetown professor and author of The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins. Moderated by USC assistant professor <a href="https://twitter.com/analysisoffleek" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A.E. Stevenson</a>.2–2:10 p.m.: Break with refreshments2:10–3:10 p.m.: Roundtable 2—Form in Losing Ground and Black Independent FilmmakingFeaturing UCSD professor and documentary filmmaker <a href="https://communication.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/davis-zeinabu.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zeinabu irene Davis</a>, UC Irvine professor <a href="https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6979" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Philana Payton</a>, and Cornell University professor and author <a href="https://pma.cornell.edu/samantha-noelle-sheppard" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Samantha Noelle Sheppard</a>. Moderated by USC Ph.D. candidate Alex Hack.3:10–4 p.m.: Closing reception<a href="https://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/eventdetails/?event_id=40237320199640" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here to learn more. </a><a href="https://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/eventdetails/?event_id=40237320199640" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>

R﻿elated Event: <a href="https://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/eventdetails/?event_id=40237320199640" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Losing Ground Screening and Talkback</a> The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Ted Mann Theater6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los AngelesFriday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m.Transportation will be available for USC students from the University Park Campus.Free for USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: <a href="https://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/losingground/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">RSVP</a>$10 for General Public: <a href="https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/losing-ground-40-018416a7-a97a-b5ac-89db-148fb0644a0a" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PURCHASE TICKETS</a>

Sign language interpreters will be present at both events.Presented by <a href="https://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">USC Visions and Voices</a>, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and the California African American Museum. Co-organized by Adrienne Adams (American Studies and Ethnicity), A.E. Stevenson (Gender and Sexuality Studies), Alex Hack (Cinema and Media Studies), and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (English). Co-sponsored by the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Research Cluster.

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