The light of a photographer in the face of the darkness of apartheid...
A documentary by Raoul Peck with Lakeith Stanfield and Raoul Peck. 1 hour 45 minutes. USA, France.
Ernest Cole, a South African photographer, was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world. His book, House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27, led him to exile in New York and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings again. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his artistic torments, and his daily anger in the face of the silence or complicity of the Western world regarding the horrors of the apartheid regime. He also tells how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in a Swedish bank vault... A screening moderated by Dorothée Lebrun, photographer and artist-author, on the occasion of the Cinema and Human Rights Festival.
Ernest Cole, a South African photographer, was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world. His book, House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27, led him to exile in New York and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings again. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his artistic torments, and his daily anger in the face of the silence or complicity of the Western world regarding the horrors of the apartheid regime. He also tells how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in a Swedish bank vault... A screening moderated by Dorothée Lebrun, photographer and artist-author, on the occasion of the Cinema and Human Rights Festival.
