THREE MINUTES A LENGHTENING
Three Minutes – A Lengthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. If we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid. An hour-long film is created through the imaginative editing of the footage. Different voices enhance the images. Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, provides his knowledge of the footage. Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy, shares his memories. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the film essay.
Bianca Stigter is a historian and cultural critic. She made the short film essays Three Minutes – Thirteen Minutes – Thirty Minutes (2014) and I Kiss This Letter – Farewell Letters from Amsterdammers (2018). She is associate producer of Steve McQueen’s feature films 12 Years a Slave and Widows. She published the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945. in 2019.
Dublin International Film Festival – Best Documentary
Jewish Film Festival – Jury Prize for Documentary Feature
THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING (doc.)
DIRECTOR: Bianca Stigter
COUNTRY: the Netherlands, United Kingdom
YEAR: 2021.
RUNTIME: 69’
LANGUAGE: English, Polish, German, Yiddish
PRODUCTION: Family Affair Films, Lammas Park
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PROGRAM LINE: KINOKAUCH PRESENTS