Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)
- Today, Dec 18
Director: Raoul Peck Run Time: 105 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: LaKeith Stanfield
Country: United States
Language: English, French
About the film:
World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories 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 and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.
“This is a portrait of all that an artist must sacrifice for their work and the ways that is amplified further as a female artist.”
—Lisa Kennedy, NY Times
About the filmmaker:
Raoul Peck is a Haitian filmmaker of both documentary and feature films. He is known for using historical, political, and personal characters to tackle and recount societal issues and historical events. Peck was Haiti’s Minister of Culture from 1996 to September 1997.
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