ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND

Golden Eye for Best Documentary Winner, Cannes Film Festival

Eight years after completing his celebrated profile of James Baldwin (I Am Not Your Negro), master documentarian Raoul Peck returns with another incisive portrait of an artist whose work, existence, and cultural impact is tied up in a gordian knot with global perceptions of race and belonging.

Ernest Cole’s evocative photography exposed the world to the harrowing realities of racial segregation under Apartheid, before he fled to the US and turned his lens to Jim Crow America. A career of photographic activism came with immense hardship, ultimately resulting in him living the last years of his life impoverished and disappearing from the world of photography entirely—along with 60,000 of his negatives.

Featuring narration by LaKeith Stanfield (Get Out, Sorry to Bother You), Ernest Cole: Lost and Found potently resurrects the memory of a Black man who fearlessly cataloged the human toll of two oppressive regimes at the price of eternal personal exile.

Introduction by John Edwin Mason (UVA).

 

“An illuminating study of a neglected pioneer.”
-Ed Potton, The Sunday Times (UK)

Date

Thu, Oct 31, 2024

Time

8:10 PM

Location

Violet Crown 6 & 7

Film Info

Director: Raoul Peck

Runtime: 105 min.

Year: 2024

Country: France, United States

Language: English

Featuring: Lakeith Stanfield (Voice)

UVA DEI – gold – DDEI_Logowhite