The subtitle to House of Bondage puts it plainly: “A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.” Ernest Cole’s groundbreaking 1967 book of documentary photography provided the world some of its first shocking glimpses of life under South African apartheid – and, uniquely, from the perspective of someone living under the boot of that brutal regime. Cole got out of the country in 1966, but he never got the recognition he was due. This documentary profile by Raoul Peck (who made the Oscar-nominated James Baldwin doc I Am Not Your Negro) aims to change that. Narrated by LaKeith Stanfield. – Kimberley Jones
Jan. 29 & Feb. 2
