Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

Directed by Raoul Peck, the universally acclaimed film focuses on Ernest Cole, a South African photographer first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life. Raoul Peck recounts Ernest Cole’s wanderings, turmoil as an artist and his anger on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank. In retrospect, Cole’s observations have become deeply significant. The euphoria he initially felt about the freedom he expected to find in America gradually gave way to disillusionment and homesickness.

At the Cannes Film Festival, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found was awarded the L’Oeil d’or for Best Documentary.

The people at de Uitkijk have kindly offered a limited amount of free tickets for Subbacultcha members. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘Ernest Cole’ in the subject line + your name in the email.