THREE MINUTES – A LENGTHENING
Bianca Stigter
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. 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. Different voices enhance the images: Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, and Maurice Chandler, who appears in the footage as a young boy. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.
In the presence of the director
Festival : Toronto – TIFF 2021
TIFF Docs
Telluride FF 2021
Sundance Film Festival 2022 Spotlight
National premiere
STARRING
WRITER
Bianca Stigter
DIRECTOR
Bianca Stigter
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
David Kurtz
SOUND
Mark Glynne
FILM EDITING
Katharina Wartena
MUSIC
Wilko Sterke
PRODUCTION
Family Affair Films
Bianca Stigter
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. In 2019 she published the book “Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945“.