Losing Ground (2005 film) explained

Losing Ground
Director:	Bryan Wizemann
Producer:	Bryan Wizemann
Starring:	Eileen O'Connell Kendall Pigg Matthew Mark Meyer
Music:	Trevor de Clercq
Cinematography:	Mark Schwartzbard
Editing:	Brad Studstrup
Runtime:	90 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

Losing Ground is a 2005 independent film directed by Bryan Wizemann adapted from Wizemann's play of the same name. It follows seven people over the course of a single night in a Las Vegas video-poker bar, and their tangled interactions.

The film features the same cast as the stage performance and was filmed using high-definition video at The Gate, a bar in Park Slope.^[1] Losing Ground premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival^[2] on March 11, 2005, to generally favorable reviews.^[3] The film was distributed to a small number of theaters in New York City.^[4] It was released on DVD January 26, 2009.

Cast

• Eileen O'Connell
• Kendall Pigg
• Matthew Mark Meyer
• Monique Vukovic
• Rhonda Keyser
• John Good
• Colm Byrne

Stage production

The play initially ran at Tom Noonan's Paradise Theater from March 29, 2003, to April 13, 2003.^{[5] [6]}

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. "Brooklyn Filmmaking Renaissance?", New York Press, January 25, 2006, available here.
2. Erik Childress, "CineVegas '05 Interview ('Losing Ground' Director Bryan Wizemann)", eFilmCritic, March 20, 2005, available here.
3. DENNIS HARVEY, "Losing Ground", Variety, March 22, 2005, available here.
4. Prairie Miller, "Losing Ground: Microcosm Of A Greed Culture", WBAI Arts Magazine, available here.
5. Les Gutman, "A CurtainUp Review: Losing Ground", CurtainUp, available here.
6. http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/archweb/arch2003_l.php#LOSING_GROUND