Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
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“How does one capture the truth in a world that refuses to see it?” Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. Due to his book, House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was just 27 years old, he found himself in exile for the rest of his life, wandering through Europe and New York, and never finding an inner equilibrium. Raoul Peck’s film follows Cole’s artistic path, fraught with strife and challenges, and focuses on the rage that grows stronger within him each day as a result of the silence of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. As Peck’s narrative unfolds, it is revealed that in 2017, 60,000 negatives of Cole’s work were discovered in a Swedish bank which restored his overlooked legacy, while highlighting the power of photography as a crucial instrument in exposing social injustice.
Screenings
Saturday 15.3.2025
Makedonikon
Sunday 16.3.2025
Tonia Marketaki
Cast and crew
Raoul Peck
1988 Haitian Corner (fiction)
1993 The Man by the Shore (fiction)
1994 Desoumen, Dialogue with Death
2001 The Profit and Nothing But!
2009 Tropical Moloch (fiction)
2016 I Am Not Your Negrο
2017 The Young Carl Marx (fiction)
2023 Silver Dollar Road
2024 Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
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