Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with photojournalist Alexis Aubin
Winner of the Golden Eye for Best Documentary, 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings.
Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his 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.
Raoul Peck
Raoul Peck, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is a Haitian filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and political figure. His film I Am Not Your Negro was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2017. He also directed Lumumba (2000), inspired by the story of Patrice Lumumba and the role played in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's independance and The Young Karl Marx (2017), a film about the youth of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Germany, Paris, and London.
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©Ernest Cole | Gracieuseté du FIFA
©Ernest Cole | Gracieuseté du FIFA
©Ernest Cole | Gracieuseté du FIFA
©Ernest Cole | Gracieuseté du FIFA
©Ernest Cole | Gracieuseté du FIFA
©Ernest Cole | Gracieuseté du FIFA
©Ernest Cole | Gracieuseté du FIFA
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