The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins showcases how Collins used filmmaking, writing, and teaching to assert herself as a poly-creative dedicated to asking and answering difficult philosophical questions about human being and living. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life explores the global significance and futurist implications of filmmaker and writer Kathleen Collins. In addition to her two films, Stallings examines the broad and expansive and varying forms of writing produced by Collins during her short life time. Stallings narrates how Collins, as a Black woman writer and filmmaker, sought to change the definition of life and living. In this critically imaginative study of Collins, L.H. However, her achievements in filmmaking were part of a greater life project. Beginning with her short film The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy and her feature film Losing Ground, Collins explored new dimensions of what narrative film could and should do. Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.
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