Losing Ground is a semiautobiographical[1] 1982 American drama film written and directed by Kathleen Collins, and starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones.

[2] It is the first feature-length drama directed by an African-American woman[3] since the 1920s and won First Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.

At the rented house, Victor becomes obsessed with painting local women, befriending one in particular—a Puerto Rican woman named Celia.

One morning, after witnessing Victor sexually harassing Celia, Sara grows furious and demands that he stop his inappropriate behavior in front of her.

[10] Losing Ground did not have a theatrical release,[11] and thus never played outside of the film festival circuit during Collins' lifetime — the director died in 1988 at the age of 46.

"[11] A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that the film "feels like news, like a bulletin from a vital and as-yet-unexplored dimension of reality.