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