Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Description
Eight years after his magisterial portrait of James Baldwin I Am Not Your Negro, master documentarian Raoul Peck turns his considered focus to the life and career of South African photographer Ernest Cole. With a vocal performance from LaKeith Stanfield, Peck deftly weaves through the biography of Cole’s life using only his trenchant B&W photographs and impassioned letters and journals. Cole was hailed as a master of singular style for his ability to capture the depredations of life under apartheid and the fissures of Jim Crow American life with immediacy and artistry. Yet for all his success, Cole rarely had stability or steady income. The film unpacks the perplexing trajectory of Cole’s life alongside the troubling mystery of Cole’s archives with stunning effect. Peck’s film captures (and rescues for history) the life of a Black man who managed to make extraordinary art in the face of two distinct and oppressive regimes.
—Rod Armstrong
Raoul Peck was born in Haiti and raised in the Congo, USA, France, and Germany. He studied film at the Academy of Cinema and Television in Berlin. His films include Lumumba (2000), Fatal Assistance (Festival 2013), Murder in Pacot (Festival 2014), I Am Not Your Negro (Doc Stories 2016), and Silver Dollar Road (2023).
Film Details
LanguageEnglish, Afrikaans, French
Year2024
Runtime105
CountryFrance
DirectorRaoul Peck
ProducerTamara Rosenberg, Raoul Peck
Executive ProducerLaurence Lascary
EditorAlexandra Strauss
CinematographerWolfgang Held, Moses Tau, Raoul Peck
MusicAlexeï Aïgui
Print SourceMagnolia Pictures
Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are not available for this film
Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions are not available for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film
