Bianca Stigter | 2022 | 68 min | The Netherlands | English spoken
Three Minutes - A Lengthening shows an amateur film, mainly in color, shot by David Kurtz in 1938 of the Jewish inhabitants of a small town in Poland and tries to postpone its end. This is the only known moving image of the Jewish residents of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. By repeating the short images over and over, the documentary investigates which stories are hidden in the almost decayed celluloid, in order to commemorate a forgotten history. As long as we look, history is not over. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the essay about film, history and memory.