Wiesbadener Fototage - Film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found"
On August 27 at 7 pm, the Kunsthaus will be showing the award-winning documentary "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found". Raoul Peck tells the moving story of South African photographer Ernest Cole, whose artistic estate - consisting of 60,000 photo negatives - was discovered in a Swedish bank safe in 2017.
Cole's 1967 photo book "House of Bondage" brought the racist reality in his home country to the attention of the world, but he was forgotten in the 1980s and died in New York in 1990 at the age of just 49.
With Cole's recovered images and texts, Peck reconstructs the life of a committed and pioneering artist whose work is inspired by anger at the silence in the face of the horrors of the apartheid regime. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" was awarded the prize for Best Documentary at Cannes. A masterpiece of politically aware cinema!
France/USA 2024, 106 minutes, English-French original version with German subtitles
FSK: 12
Admission is free! The Kunsthaus would appreciate a small donation.