Das KoKi zeigt: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

In the organizer's words:

Photos from everyday life under the South African apartheid regime: "Non Whites Only" is written above the platform where crowds of black people are jostling for space. "Whites Only" is written above the stairs opposite, where only a few whites make their way onto the platform. At the end of the 1950s, Ernest Cole began to capture the "horror of apartheid", as he said in an early interview, in black and white photographs, with a hidden camera and often at the risk of his life. In May 1966, Cole fled to the USA with his negatives. There he became famous overnight with his photo book "House of Bondage". However, his sudden fame became a burden, even a disaster for the photographer and ultimately led him to homelessness at the 34th Street station in New York. Haitian director Raoul Peck's documentary film is now a memorial to the unjustly forgotten man. He superimposes a spoken text from Cole's first-person perspective over the images. In the second half, Peck broadens the perspective to the late 1960s with images of the American civil rights movement and protests against the Vietnam War. Ernest Cole did not live to see the liberation of South Africa. He died in New York in February 1990, a few weeks before Nelson Mandela was released from decades of imprisonment, at the age of 49.

France/USA 2024, Director: Raoul Peck, Documentary, 12+, 106 min

The Kommunale Kino Bremerhaven (KoKi) shows its film program every Wednesday at the CineMotion cinema complex in Bremerhaven. The screening times are 18:00 and 20:30, other times are listed in the film program. The films are shown without advertising and start directly at the specified times.
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