She was a feverish artist, working on many fronts. Just last year its premiere was held at Lincoln Center, where it played to sold-out crowds. That movie, “Losing Ground” (1982), parsed black intellectual life in New York City it was about a female philosophy professor and her wayward husband, a painter. She was among the first black women to direct a feature-length film. When the filmmaker, playwright and fiction writer Kathleen Collins died of breast cancer in 1988, at 46, she left behind a wide body of work that’s only beginning to see the light of day.
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