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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)

105 min · Documentary

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

Film

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)

IMDb7.3105 min

Raoul Peck raconte ses errances, ses tourments d’artiste et sa colère au quotidien, face au silence ou la complicité du monde occidental devant les horreurs du régime de l’Apartheid.

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

Director
Raoul Peck

Themesanti-apartheidanti-indigenous racismapartheidbiographical documentaryblack history