whatever happened to interracial love book review

Prior to the production of “Losing Ground,” Collins had worked as a film editor and was both a teacher of French and a professor of film. Her husband (Bill Gunn), an artist, seeks new inspirations, and finds his creative freedom to be inseparable from sexual adventure, threatening their marriage. It’s the story of a professor of philosophy (Seret Scott) who’s seeking to move her studies toward a realm of aesthetic experience that engages with African-American culture, as her theoretical work branches out, through the course of circumstances, into movies. The film was the great rediscovery of 2015, when it received its first official release at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Now there’s another name to add to the list-the late Kathleen Collins, who died in 1988, at the age of forty-six, and who has unfortunately been inscribed only belatedly in the modern pantheon of directors.Ĭollins’s first and only feature, “Losing Ground,” from 1982, had just a handful of screenings in her lifetime. These filmmakers are distinguished not only by their attention to the language that’s spoken in their films but by the very sense of discourse that gives rise to a particular and personal sense of cinematic form. There’s a special category of superb filmmakers who started as writers, such as the novelists Éric Rohmer, Ousmane Sembène, and Marguerite Duras, as well as the playwrights Sacha Guitry and Kenneth Lonergan.

Kathleen Collins endows the short stories in “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?” with a cinematic sense of form.

Whatever happened to interracial love book review