Three Minutes - A Lenghtening
Bianca Stigter
© US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Three Minutes - A Lenghthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. The film is a haunting essay about history and memory. As long as 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. Those precious minutes are examined moment by moment to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid.
With : Helena Bonham Carter
Screenplay : Bianca Stigter
Image : David Kurtz
Sound : Mark Glynne
Editing : Katharina Wartena
Music : Wilko Sterke
Screenplay : Bianca Stigter
Image : David Kurtz
Sound : Mark Glynne
Editing : Katharina Wartena
Music : Wilko Sterke
Production : Family Affair Films, Lammas Park
International sales: Autlook Filmsales
International sales: Autlook Filmsales
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.