Exhibition
Frank Cole: Life Without Death
25 Sep 2015 – 4 Oct 2015
Event times
Film duration: 86mins.
Evening previews screenings are Friday 25 September and Thursday 1 October: 6pm, 7.30pm
During regular opening hours screenings begin at 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm
Cost of entry
Free entrance
Address
- enclave 3
- 50 Resolution Way
- London
- SE8 4NT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Train: Deptford, New Cross
‘Life Without Death’ is a minimalist, death-obsessed first-person account of Frank Cole’s record-breaking solo trek across the Sahara in 1990.
About
Following the death of his grandfather, he set out to confront his own mortality by embarking, Bolex movie camera in hand, on a 7,000-kilometre crossing of the African desert on camel, from Mauritania to Sudan.
The self-shot, diaristic feature-length film, which took Cole a decade to edit, chronicles the remarkably arduous journey, the toll it takes on his body, and the human dangers — civil wars, suspicious authorities, marauders — he encounters along the way.
The result is a meditative, obsessive work of intense power and poetry.
Cole was murdered when he was attempting another Sahara crossing a decade later in October 2000.