Three Minutes – A Lengthening

Bianca Stigter
2021, 69′

In English, Polish, Yiddish and German with Slovenian subtitles

3,80 €
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The film Three Minutes – A Lengthening by Bianca Stigter presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in colour, are the only remaining moving images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The footage is imaginatively edited to create a film that lasts more than an hour. Different voices enhance the images: Glenn Kurtz, David Kurtz’s grandson, shares his knowledge of the footage; Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy, shares his memories; and actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the film essay.

Three Minutes – A Lengthening is an experiment that turns scarcity into a quality. Living in a time marked by an abundance of images that are never viewed twice, we do the opposite here: circle the same moments again and again, convinced that they will give us a different meaning each time. The film starts and ends with the same unedited found footage, but the second time you will look at it quite differently.

– Bianca Stigter

The screening will be followed by an online talk with the film’s writer and director Bianca Stigter, moderated by Varja Močnik.

Trailer: Three Minutes – A Lengthening

Direction, script: Bianca Stigter; footage: David Kurtz; editor: Katharina Wartena; music: Wilko Sterke; sound design: Mark Glynne; visual effects: Thaumar Rep; narrator: Helena Bonham Carter; producer: Floor Onrust; co-producer: Steve McQueen. Organisation: City of Women and Kinodvor.