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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck
United States
2024
106 min
Dutch Premiere
Signed
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Synopsis

In the late 1960s, photographer Ernest Cole’s disturbing photobook House of Bondage gave an insider’s perspective on apartheid and its impact on Black South Africans like himself. It shocked the world. In the 1980s Cole fell into oblivion, however, partly because his photographic negatives appeared to have been lost. But in 2017 many of them were rediscovered.

Director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) looks back on Cole’s work and life through the photographer’s lens. The voice-over is based on texts written by Cole, who died in poverty, but the starring role is reserved for his phenomenal photography.

While living in exile in the United States he continued to photograph Black communities in urban and rural areas. Potential clients sadly didn’t recognize the urgency of his work; his observations of increasing similarities between racism in the US and South Africa was clearly an unwelcome message.

Cole’s observations have only gained in value with time. Euphoria about the freedom he anticipated in the US gave way to disappointment and homesickness. Ernest Cole, Lost and Found won the L’Oeil d’or for best documentary at Cannes.

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Tickets & Times
Thu, november 14
20:00 – 21:51
Tuschinski 2

Sun, november 17
Introduction by curator Katy Hundertmark of Foam
10:30 – 12:31
Carré

Wed, november 20
18:00 – 19:51
Podium Mozaïek

Thu, november 21
20:15 – 22:38
Meervaart Blauwe Zaal

Fri, november 22
Free with Cineville. More info at idfa.nl/cineville
19:45 – 21:35
Bijlmerbios

Sat, november 23
Part of De Groene Amsterdammer-dag
10:00 – 21:51
ITA: Rabozaal

Sat, november 23
21:45 – 23:35
Eye: Cinema 1
Credits
106 min
color / black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: English
Director
    Raoul Peck
    Raoul Peck
Production
    Tamara Rosenberg for Velvet Film
    Tamara Rosenberg for Velvet Film
Cinematography
    Wolfgang Held,
    Moses Tau,
    Raoul Peck
    Wolfgang Held,
    Moses Tau,
    Raoul Peck
Editing
    Alexandra Strauss
    Alexandra Strauss
World Sales
    mk2 Films
    mk2 Films
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Gabrielle Rozing for Imagine Film
    Gabrielle Rozing for Imagine Film
Screening copy
    Imagine Film
    Imagine Film

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