Losing Ground

Sarah (Seret Scott) is a philosophy professor spending her summer leave researching ecstatic experience; while her husband Victor (Bill Gunn, director of Ganja and Hess), an abstract painter, finds himself on the verge of a career breakthrough. He suggests they break out of the city, taking a summer house in upstate New York. For the couple, it’s a moment when lives not lived open up to them: Victor is seduced by the light of the countryside, as well as by Celia, a Puerto Rican woman who becomes his muse. Meanwhile Sarah seeks her own creative outlet, taking part in a student film back in the city, where she works with the sympathetic, cerebral Duke (Duane Jones – Ganja & Hess, Night of the Living Dead). (Independent Cinema Office)