Filmmaking Pioneer
"Losing Ground," a 1982 film by Kathleen Collins (1942-1988), is one of the first narrative features directed by an African-American woman. An independent production, its modest budget was funded by a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and, like much minority filmmaking of the time, by German television.
"Losing Ground" centers around two Black professionals, a university professor and her artist husband, and their world, one rarely portrayed in mainstream media at the time.
While the film never secured theatrical distribution, it has now been restored in a new 4K version that will be shown at the Sag Harbor Cinema on Saturday at 6 p.m. Collins's daughter, Nina Lorez Collins, who is a part-time East End resident, will attend the screening and discuss the film afterward with Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, the cinema's artistic director, who has called Collins's work "trailblazing."
Open Studios
In Process at the Watermill Center, which provides access to the studios and works-in-progress of the center's resident artists, will feature a European dance company, a theater scholar, and a multidisciplinary artist on Friday at 5:30 p.m.
Based in Madrid, the KOR'SIA collective is committed to the idea that the arts, and specifically the arts of movement, are best suited to represent the human world, including tradition, society, and culture.
The work of Matthew Randle-Bent, an artist and scholar, focuses on cultivating the "critical attitude" described by Bertolt Brecht, and the relationship between landscape, the spirit, and performance.
STUDIOTASSY was established by Tassy E. Thompson as a tool for diverse collaborative outdoor practices, including sculpture, performance, community events, design, and more.
Registration for the free event is on the center's website.
Rising Star
Niccolo Ronchi, a Pianofest artist, is next in the Southampton Cultural Center's Rising Stars Piano series, with a recital on Saturday at 6 p.m. of works by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev.
Mr. Ronchi has excelled at national and international piano competitions, earning nearly 70 placements, 51 of which were first prizes. He has performed both as a soloist and with orchestras in over 200 recitals and concerts in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door; free for students under 21.
Perlman Music Recitals
The Perlman Music Program's Shelter Island campus will be alive with the sound of classical music this weekend, with two Stires-Stark Alumni Recitals on tap.
On Saturday at 5 p.m., Taeguk Mun on cello and Jun Cho on piano will perform works by Schumann, Penderecki, and Beethoven. Compositions by Bach, Esmail, and Schubert will be performed by Leah Ferguson on viola and Matthew Graybil on piano on Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
Tickets for each concert are $35. Reserved seating is available for Virtuoso Society members.
Award-Winning Drama
"Duet for One," which won the London Theatre Critics Award for best play of 1980, will have a directed reading at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Written by Tom Kempinski, the play was inspired by the life of the cellist Jacqueline du Pre, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 28, at the height of her career.
Zoey O'Toole, a member of Actors Equity with many Off Off Broadway credits, will appear as Stephanie Anderson, a world-famous violinist who grapples with a recent diagnosis of M.S. Rick Forstmann, a director and cinematographer as well as an actor, will play her psychotherapist, who is struggling with his own issues.
The program was originally scheduled for Sept. 23.
