Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)

7.5/10 • 105 min • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

LaKeith Stanfield

Ernest Cole (Voice over)

Raoul Peck

Ernest Cole (French voice over)

Ernest Cole

Self - archive footage

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