Kathleen Collins

"A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmaker."--

A collection of newly discovered and never-before-published stories by the late Kathleen Collins, a brilliant yet little-known African American writer, artist, and filmmaker.

Exuberant, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, these sixteen stories by Kathleen Collins explore deep, far-reaching issues—relating to race, gender, family, and sexuality—that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. Collins’s work

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The inimitable Kathleen Collins's second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a crossroads in their lives: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest just as her painter husband, Victor, sets off on an exploration of joy. Victor decides to rent a country house away from the city, but the couple’s summer idyll becomes complicated by his involvement with a younger model....

Jim Gray, searching for a notorious gang leader, assumes the identity of a murdered man to infiltrate the gang. With his friend Squint Saunders, Jim attempts to join but is caught and forced to prove his loyalty by killing his friend.