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    Street Talk for July 30, 2021

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    Rebecca Johnson (l) and Urs Furrer
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    Glassworks has added sr. producer Rebecca Johnson and sr. VFX supervisor and lead compositor Urs Furrer to its Amsterdam team. Originally from New Zealand, Johnson has built her career working with a variety of teams on CGI-heavy content for TV, film, and advertising. During her five years at The Mill in London, she helped lead an award-winning team of artists focused on sci-fi and character effects for projects such as Merlin, Primeval, and the critically acclaimed Doctor Who series. A trusted and sought-after freelancer from her time in Barcelona, Johnson recently produced several projects under the Glassworks Creative Studio umbrella, including the CGI and live-action "Small World" campaign for Samsung and the heartwarming character piece for Penny. Other projects produced by Johnson for Glassworks include the animated prologue for Universal Pictures’ Dolittle and the immersive VR experience, Symphony. Furrer first joined Glassworks in 2015 after relocating from Australia. He now returns to the Amsterdam team after a five-year stint at a52 in Los Angeles where he served as VFX supervisor and creative director. He has worked with clients such as Apple, Netflix, Toyota, Microsoft, Nissan, and Honda. Furrer's body of work includes five consecutive years of Super Bowl ads….

     

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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