Join us Tuesday, February 7, at 6 pm, in Gannett Auditorium for a screening and discussion of Skidmore ’63 alumna Kathleen Collins’s 1982 film Losing Ground, which was recently restored and widely re-released to critical acclaim. One of the first fictional features by an African-American woman, the film tells the story of Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, who is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand “ecstasy” just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthy exploration of joy.

Following the film, Samantha Noelle Sheppard, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Cornell University, and Ruby Fludzinski, a documentary filmmaker working on a film about Collins, will discuss the film and Collins’s career.

This event is organized by the Media and Film Studies Program the Tang Teaching Museum, with support from the Black Studies Program, the Skidmore Racial Justice Initiative, and the offices of Alumni Relations and Institutional Diversity. It is free and open to the public.