{"id":1602,"date":"2025-01-14T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:47:13","slug":"raoul-peck-on-ernest-cole-lost-and-found-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/raoul-peck-on-ernest-cole-lost-and-found-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fearless voice against systemic injustice, Raoul Peck has crafted a body of work that interrogates the legacies of colonialism, racism, and power with unflinching clarity. In this episode, Peck joins our producer Elliot to discuss his latest film, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, an intimate exploration of South Africa\u2019s first apartheid-era photographer. Reflecting on Cole\u2019s haunting images, Peck draws striking parallels between apartheid South Africa, modern systems of segregation, and the enduring consequences for those displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peck\u2019s films stand as a testament to the radical potential of cinema to confront, reimagine, and connect the world\u2019s entrenched narratives. He leaves us with a powerful reminder: \u201cThe world will be what each one of us lets it be. If we don\u2019t act, our inaction will shape the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book tickets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/ernest-cole-lost-and-found\/\">\u2060Ernest Cole: Lost and Found\u2060<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book tickets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/peck\/\">\u2060The Raoul Peck Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Get tickets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/celebrating-cinema-film-club-juice-incl-introduction\/\">\u2060CC Film Club: Juice\u2060<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/celebratingcinema\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273 noopener\"><strong>Subscribe to our podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0AND4hmLFu826mNUJGWMz1?si=3a74e67194dc4610&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Films mentioned<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (Raoul Peck, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our hosts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" data-id=\"1595\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/profielfoto-laura-gommans.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/profielfoto-laura-gommans.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/profielfoto-laura-gommans-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/profielfoto-laura-gommans-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/profielfoto-laura-gommans-768x960.jpg 768w, 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data-id=\"1430\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-scaled.jpeg 1707w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-480x720.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-720x1080.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kiriko-500x750.jpeg 500w, 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prefer to leave buried. His documentary on Ernest Cole, South Africa&#8217;s first apartheid-era photographer whose life ended in mysterious exile, is both intimate and structurally bold: a meditation on what images cost to make and what happens to the person who makes them. Speaking with Elliot, Peck draws connections between apartheid South Africa, contemporary systems of segregation, and the ongoing question of whether documentary cinema can do justice to lives lived under state violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","post_format-post-format-audio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}