Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Screening and Director Q&A

Run Time: 1 Hour and 46 Min

Showings

Assembly Hall Thu, Nov 21 7:00 PM
Doors open at 6:00pm

Description

The Riverside Church in collaboration with Magnolia Pictures Presents:

Ernest Cole:  Lost and Found

Screening and Director Q&A

 

The Riverside Church, in collaboration with Magnolia Pictures, presents a screening of the documentary film, “ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND”.  The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Raoul Peck, moderated by Rev. Mira Sawlani-Joyner (Minister of Justice, Change, & Advocacy).

 

About the film:

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s “ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND” is a new documentary chronicling the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times so vastly different, and at others eerily similar, to the segregated culture of his homeland. During this period, he published his landmark book of photographs denouncing the apartheid, House of Bondage which, while banned in South Africa, cemented Cole’s place as one of the great photographers of his time at the age of 27. After his death, more than 60,000 of his 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures Cole shot in the U.S. Telling his own story through his writings, the recollections 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.

 

 

 

Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 7:00pm

Doors open at 6:00pm

 

Run Time: 1 Hour and 46 Min


Box Office will Open at 6:00pm

 

Tickets can also be purchased online and at the Riverside Visitor Center

 

For ticketing questions or problems please email rsvptrt@trcnyc.org