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Event Series Event Series: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

January 17 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

$9

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Admission $9 General admission $10 Admission for film festivals presented at the MFAH $2 discount MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+) Free Children 5 and younger Purchasing Tickets The MFAH Films box office accepts payment by credit card only. Tickets may be purchased in advance in three ways: online, via ticket links on mfah.org/calendar or mfah.org/film pages; in the MFAH lobbies during Museum hours; and at the box office prior to screenings. The box office opens an hour before showtime. In order to allow as many people as possible to be seated on time, staff may need to refrain from printing multiple advance tickets within the hour of a posted film screening. Join Film Buffs, the Museum’s patron group, and receive at least 10 free admissions to MFAH films, plus discounted admission thereafter. Location & Directions The MFAH has two theaters: Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building (1001 Bissonnet Street) and the Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building (5500 Main Street). Learn more about parking and transportation options at the Museum. Subtitles All films originating in foreign languages are shown with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted. Ratings Many of the films are not rated and may be inappropriate for younger viewers. Closed-Captioning & Audio-Description Capabilities Brown Auditorium Theater is equipped for closed-captioning and audio-description services when the film presented has such features enabled. Please note that the MFAH screens rare and rediscovered prints of movie classics; new and historical works; restored silent films; thematic retrospectives; and innovative works by contemporary film, video, and new-media artists. Many of these titles are not distributed with closed-captioning and audio-description capabilities. Accessibility If you have any questions or requests concerning accessibility resources in the Museum’s auditoriums, email accessibility@mfah.org or call 713.639.7300.

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest documentary chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. His early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed Black life under apartheid to the world. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City and the American South. He was fascinated by the ways this country could be so vastly different, and sometimes eerily similar, to the segregated culture of his homeland.

During this period, Cole published House of Bondage (included in the Museum’s permanent collection), his landmark book of photographs denouncing the apartheid which, while banned in South Africa, cemented his place as one of the great photographers of the time at the young age of 27. Telling his personal story through Cole’s writings, the recollections of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film introduces this pivotal artist to a new generation.

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January 17
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Cost:
$9
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building
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